“I think we’re running out of time. We’re like a bunch of political dinosaurs and my party is practicing extinction politics.”
Democrats Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders in a head-to-head race. Some Republican operatives are confident that the party is generally on solid ground in the state. They put the 2018 losses and close calls down to a “down ticket effect” driven by the momentum O’Rourke’s Senate campaign generated, which they don’t believe Democrats can sustain into 2020, when Trump will be on the ballot.
“The youth is why we’re losing Texas. It’s not Californians moving in, it’s not New Yorkers moving in — the reality is they tend to vote Republican,” said Crenshaw, addressing young Republicans from all over Texas at the convention’s gala dinner. Crenshaw’s political profile is on the rise here — he has so far raised around $3 million, giving him an advantage going into the race next year to hold onto his mostly suburban Houston seat in 2020. But he, too, has been willing to publicly criticize the president. Most recently, he released a long video critiquing the president’s decision making on Syria, and in the past has called on Trump to lay off taunting former senator John McCain.
Some young Republicans trace the party’s problems back before O’Rourke’s Senate run, and even before the Trump era. “I think the Republican Party of Texas and the RNC’s full embrace of the Donald Trump brand, for Texas it’s a critical mistake,” he said, adding that the party has abandoned the Texas brand of conservatism that he says George W. Bush, Rick Perry, and to some extent Gov. Greg Abbott built — an approach that’s emphatically pro-businesses and “doesn’t attack the immigrant.”
“I think our tone on immigration is a big part of that, too. I think we need to watch our tone,” he said, adding, though, that it’s complicated and he knows at least one Latino Republican who supports Trump’s efforts to build a wall along the southern border.
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