We need to make it shameful to be seen being a Republican.

Want? They already have pedophiles, traitors and criminals running the country.

I think it's simpler, and dare I say worse, than that. US voters on an American "team" have a hard time voting for the other American "team". Both sides will pinch their nose and vote "blue no matter who" or whatever the red version of that is.

THAT is a larger problem.

And I'm not implying actively voting for a criminal is not terrible, just that there's a larger problem that leads to that. Both sides can be blinded by their loyalty.

I'm also not saying both sides are equally bad, just making a statement about what this hard-line team stuff has done to our politics

Yep, even the stuff in the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES (TM).

Beta stuck his foot in his mouth by leaning on gun control. Something even the left has realized that's not a good thing considering the tyrants that are in power now.

As long as he doesn't tell Texans he's coming for their guns he'll hopefully maintain his edge.

I think Democrats have cooled their 2a rhetoric in general since Beto's campaign. They realize it alienates a lot of the independent voters they need.

Yep. I've seen Texas is going blue to many times. I'll celebrate when it actually happens

Nobody should, they've been wrong for at least the past 4 elections.

Faith? No. But they're a critical guideline for where to focus efforts if you want Republicans to lose Senate and Congressional seats.

There is a reason we are called selfish, stupid bastards.

Texas has been purple for a long while at worst if not actually blue. There has been decades of making it harder for the left leaning voices to gain traction in positions of substance

And without a single neuron firing, they watch fox news because of the BiAsEd MeDiA, while fox talks about Republicans in terms of "we."

Probably Russian trolls.