Republicans gain ground in blue Harris County
KXAN [Austin, TX],
by
Ryan Chandler
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
11/7/2024 1:50:49 AM
HOUSTON — Just 10 days ago, Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a roaring rally for 30,000 Houstonians, featuring Democratic Senate candidate Colin Allred and superstars like Beyoncé and Willie Nelson. The event created a veneer of enthusiasm and hope for strong turnout in the blue bastion. On Tuesday, Democrats were left wondering what went wrong.
As it turns out, turnout was the lowest Harris County has seen in more than 20 years — just 58% — 10 points lower than the last presidential election in 2020. With a dearth of Democratic motivation, Republicans gained ground.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 11/7/2024 1:53:14 AM (No. 1827841)
This surprised everyone. The Republican gains in the courts would have been higher if the party had been more aggressive in fielding candidates. Instead, they had convinced themselves it was a waste of money. The dynamic has changed so much the Chronicle now sees the county as a swing vote county. It's no longer a given for the Democrats. A shock.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
smak90 11/7/2024 6:28:45 AM (No. 1827908)
I think low turnout has more to do with stopping fraudulent votes in the areas that are notorious for it. Texas has been working hard to stop it
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 11/7/2024 6:55:24 AM (No. 1827921)
I lived in Harris Co for 40 years, and well remember its rampant election fraud, decades before the practice became a national "thing."
I distinctly recall stories about voters voting once, then doing nothing more than walking or driving around the block, and then voting again and again...and all captured on film.
Simply sanitizing the election fraud we all know is going on might be all that is needed to flip Harris Co from blue to red.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Muguy 11/7/2024 7:02:14 AM (No. 1827925)
".. what went wrong..."
People voted their pocketbooks.... duh!
People got tired of the Hollyweird, Entertainers, media lies and gaslighting fromthose who consider themselves our "betters" telling the American people that it was okay for the ABSURITIES they were all pushing as 'normal" or as NoBama called it the "NEW 'normal'" to blindly be accepted while they did not "feel our pain" as BJ Clinton told us.
Clinton promised a "middle class tax cut" and got elected and told us there was "no money to give a meddles class tax cut". In desperation, Kamala Lala and her merrry band of gaslighters said the same dman thing trying to trick us once again.
THIS TIME, Charlie Brown DID get to kick the football!!!
The U.S. has been under this siege of our culture and values ever since NoBama beat our poor RINO candidate John McPain lost in the 20087 elelction.
This election started the long eradication of the RINOs who only care about $$$ and feathering their own nests-- Now the media is trying to shove more RiNO candidates for the leadership in the new Senate to replace Benedict Turtle-- no time for We the People to sit on our laurels of the TRUMP mandate to clear out those rascals!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/7/2024 7:38:42 AM (No. 1827958)
I'm disappointed in Willie Nelson for associating with these clowns but fortunately singing ability has nothing to do with politics.
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I suspect that behind the scenes there were methods put in place to prohibit the rampant cheating done in prior elections. A satellite taken out here; a post office under surveillance there....
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney 11/7/2024 9:37:36 AM (No. 1828081)
The low Democrat turnout just indicates the scale of the fraud in 2020, when the Democrats set up drive up voting locations, and mailed out ballots to everyone. The fraud was massive. BTW, Harris County has few peers when it comes to corruption. The Housing Authority leader just put on leave for contracts to those with no experience doing the job. The City Controller under pressure for charging bond underwriters $100K for lunch with him, then saying he donated that money to his charity, which has an office in his office, and the charity also do get out the vote activity for Democrats, even though a 501c3. The HISD has been taken over by the state. The HISD just lost a 4.3 bond amendment, the largest in state history, to build 40 new schools for all the illegals that have flooded Houston. HISD got a 3 billion bond only 3 years ago, and has the lowest graduation rate, less than half. The teachers in Houston have been cheating on their certification tests by paying someone else to take the test for them. Houston is badly in debt, and the Republican Governor had to give the city a 50 million grant to keep going. Water, sewer, and street money has not been spent on that in 50 years. Sylvester Turner, former black mayor, is now replacing Sheila Jackson Lee, so don't expect the corruption in Harris County to stop any time soon.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Safari Man 11/7/2024 11:22:46 AM (No. 1828185)
May I suggest we rename "Harris County" to "Trump County"?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 11/7/2024 12:07:46 PM (No. 1828213)
#7, nice recap of things and amazing people will tolerate such things for very long but they seem to in many inner-cities for decades.
Maybe some of these places can find new leadership that's not looking to enrich themselves off the system and actually help improve the lives of the people living there.
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