That state , which politicians carry ‘we like to go it alone’ on their backs is suffering thru a natural and man made disaster…
The talk about succession from the rest of the country sound ignorant right now…
The media puts a focus on the Governor of that state…
Republican Greg Abbott….
Abbott emerged that evening for a series of television interviews. In short, curt sentences, he told Texans in the Lubbock and Houston areasthat he had issued an emergency order and called for an immediate legislative investigation of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the electrical grid. He angrily accused the council of not having a backup power supply and not sharing information with Texans, “even with the governor of Texas.”
Then he went on Fox News.
“This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America,” Abbott said, looking more relaxed as he chatted with host Sean Hannity, falsely blaming his state’s problems on environmental policies pushed by liberals.
This deadly disaster is one in a series that Abbott has faced in his six years as governor: Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which resulted in the deaths of 68 people, at least six major mass shootings that left more than 70 people dead and a pandemic that has killed 42,000 in the state. Now, at least 32 people have died in Texas because of this storm….
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“He hasn’t done anything,” said Conor Kenny, a Democrat who is a former planning commission chairman in Austin. “All he has done is call for an investigation into his own administration.”
Abbott’s staff declined to make him available for an interview and did not respond to a list of questions.
Some longtime Abbott supporters are worried that this crisis could politically hurt the governor, who is up for reelection next year. Several prominent Democrats are eyeing the race, and a group of liberal activists — some of whom worked on former congressman Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 Senate campaign — started a political action committee last year called the Beat Abbott PAC.
“Short term, I am absolutely certain that the governor’s popularity will suffer as a result of this,” said Bill Hammond, a Republican lobbyist and former head of the Texas Association of Business. “He is the head of state government at this time . . . and it’s just like the quarterback, the blame and the credit go to the quarterback.”…
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Despite worries that Texas could flip blue in the 2020 presidential election, former president Donald Trump won the state by a nearly 6 percentage point margin, and Republicans did not suffer any major losses in the statehouse or Congress.
Note …
Except in some large cities in the state?
Democrats do NOT get elected to high office their….
While political types outside the country talk up possible state wide Democratic possible wins?
THAT simply does NOT happen…
Most in the state feel that after this ?
Democrats will be in the same place statewide….
Almost Nowhere….
image…People wait in line at a grocery store in Austin on Tuesday. (Sergio Flores/for The Washington Post)