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LeftInTX

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15. I think the big thing since you left are the jungle primaries.

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Sun Apr 12, 2026, 12:55 PM

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Yikes. If this was just a regular primary and this came out about Swalwell, they would just vote another candidate..easy peasy....

As for inside info about the Democratic Party in CA, I have no idea. I live in the stuggling State of Texas. We have a new folksie state chair, Kendall Scudder who knows how to get a crowd worked up. And he's certainly got more practical ideas than the last chair. Will it translate to votes?

Well, it's better than Hinojosa whose motto was, "Texas is gonna turn blue". We also need to retire the old, "Texas isn't a red state, it's a non-voting state". When low turnout voters finally voted, they ended up voting for Trump...Hinojosa got the Texas Monthly Bumsteer award....

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