Targeting Texas
In a speech on April 15 before the McLennan County Republican Club, Greg Abbott, the Republican Attorney General and a potential candidate for governor in 2014, declared that Battleground Texas represents a bigger danger to the state than Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea:
One thing that requires ongoing vigilance is the reality that the state of Texas is coming under a new assault, an assault far more dangerous than what the leader of North Korea threatened when he said he was going to add Austin, Texas, as one of the recipients of his nuclear weapons.
Texas’s 38 votes in the Electoral College, Abbott said, are “the last line of defense” for those who want to protect the American future.
The drive to turn Texas blue, primarily by mobilizing Hispanics, threatens to disrupt the security and comfort of incumbents in both parties. Many elected officials in Texas currently represent majority or plurality Latino districts, but face no serious challenge because registration and turnout rates are uniquely dismal in Texas’s Hispanic precincts.
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