Texas Tea-Partiers Panic After Blue Wave: 'Dems Are Moving In Across The Border'
In the run-up to Election Day, an influential Tea Party group seemed skeptical that a blue wave would wash over the state.
But after the votes were tallied Tuesday, the NE Tarrant Tea Party found that some of its favored candidates had nearly been swept away.
Slaughtered
slaughtered
lost
lost
barely held on, but at least they won, the groups president, Julie McCarty, wrote to supporters Wednesday, ticking down a list of races. We are rapidly becoming outnumbered. I dont know what tomorrow holds, but I dont like the pattern.
Though the GOP maintained its dominance of the Legislature and control of every statewide office, it was by almost all counts a tough night for her wing of the party. With the Democrats star senatorial candidate, Beto ORourke, at the top of the ticket, challengers running to the left of far-right and often well-financed candidates made nail-biters of races that had once been safe Republican wins.
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