TX 2014: Perry almost certainly not running; announcing within a week

[Reginald]

Yeah, Abbott would crush her in that hypothetical race. Though if she happens to find herself having no other options... let's just say it'd be nice to not have yet another Paul Sadler representing the TX Dems statewide.

If Davis wants to remain an office-holder in Texas, I really don't see what feasible options she has other than hoping that her district isn't chopped up. And even before she got this national attention this week, that race would have been a tough one; as it stands her district has a lot of super-R areas and she barely won reelection last year. The GOP will assuredly be chomping at the bit.

[Reginald]

Perry, Cruz, and now truly inevitably Abbott. Texas politicians, yay. How I wish the "Texas is becoming rapidly blue!" crowd weren't as delusional as it is...

Abbott is already very close to the Tea Party (whatever that actually is anymore), so he'd have to seriously gaffe or blaspheme to draw a considerable challenger of that general background. They do exist, however; Larry Kilgore is probably more right-wing and has already declared, but he's a perennial and also explicitly secessionist.