By Selwyn Duke

The Democrats are going to mess with Texas in 2020. So says Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who predicts that a massive Democrat turnout in the coming November 3 contest will threaten President Trump’s re-election chances. He also states, however, that the impeachment effort has helped Trump, transforming his second-term prospects from “a coin flip” proposition into something greater.

Texas has for a while now been a prime Democrat electoral target because, as I wrote in 2012, flipping the state left would make it impossible for a conservative Republican to become president. The 2018 election was a portent of things to come, too, says Cruz, as the Democrats more than doubled their Lone Star State turnout that year. This helps explain the senator’s narrow, 2.6 percent 2018 re-election victory over left-wing challenger Irish Bob (“Beto”) O’Rourke, the closest Senate race in Texas since 1978.

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