Texas went 52/43 Republican with one of the most reprehensible Dem candidates possible. She wasn't just a bad choice, she was a proven, career long crook.
We may detest Harris and her commie policies, but she has way more personal draw to a non-engaged independent voter than HRC.
Then we throw in the unified and re-energized black vote, which has proven to mobilize and vote race above all else when they have a candidate.
I said there are plenty of Hispanics who don't vote race. However, it's naive to think a Hispanic Texan on the ticket wouldn't draw a bigger share of the Hispanic Texan vote than HRC's ticket.
All that still wouldn't matter in Texas in 2020 with a less polarizing Rep candidate. But these new advantages would face the same controversial guy HRC lost to by 9 points.
The three counties with over 45k people (all in DFW area) you mentioned are in the midst of absorbing a North Texas invasion.
Denton and Tarrant aren't getting it in the teeth as bad, but Collin is another story.
I moved to Collin county in Feb, this area is under siege. There's a huge, steady migration of Dallas folks swarming in, enough to create the sign campaign 'Don't Dallas my Plano'.
Then there's the Toyota headquarters relocation importing many thousands of their employees to Plano.
Other big companies are due to follow as Frisco is in its infancy of blowing up with business development and there's plenty of prime land to do so.
Collin county is in the early stages of the path Travis county went down as a hotbed for relocating major companies. The H1B visa program is thriving here.
It's only a matter of time until Collin is blue and everyone here knows it.
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