Sam Seder
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If Democrats Turn Out In Texas, It Could Become A HUGE Blue State

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March 8, 2018

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In this Majority Report clip, John from San Antonio calls in to give us the rundown on what happened during Texas' primaries.

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---The most striking thing about the much-hyped Texas primaries is how ordinary they actually were.

That was the message from the Texas Tribune’s Evan Smith, who has been following the state’s politics for the better part of three decades, when I spoke with him by phone. At the end of the day, 1.5 million Republicans voted in the primary and 1 million Democrats did. Despite the blue Texas hype and anti-Trump national environment, Republicans held a 500,000-vote advantage once all the ballots were counted.

“Democrats like to say Texas is not a red state, it’s a nonvoting state. Fine. But the fact that it’s a nonvoting state means that it’s a red state,” Smith, the Tribune’s CEO, told me. “At the end of the day, yesterday was more or less a regular Texas election. More Republicans turned out than Democrats.”---

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