• ryper@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Wouldn’t it be purple, at best? Flipping one Senate seat in a red state isn’t going to make the whole place blue.

    • Platypus@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      For sure, but even making Texas remotely competitive would be a huge blow—it’s a large state that takes a lot of money to reach with political advertising, and if republicans have to start campaigning hard to keep their bedrock state then that time and money drain can start dragging other races.