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Kennedy somehow managed to link progresivism and anti-communism. Maybe if liberal zionists had an speaker like him, Biden would had aproved the siege of Rafah.

ANC by process of elimination

I think people got way too excited about this based on 2016.  It's still somewhat less college educated and way more religious (including plenty of the college educated people) than the national average.  There's also a lot of evidence Texas Hispanics are culturally assimilating toward white Evangelicals.  That having been said, I don't think it will ever go back to being R+25, but there's no reason it wouldn't stay R+10ish for many years.  Maybe Dems eventually win it in a 2008 scenario as a one-time thing.   

What if a Conservadem wins as a Senator?

Texas doesn't really have them anymore.   Cuellar is basically the last one standing and now he's under a probably career ending indictment.  Texas conservadems were in terminal decline by the early 2000's and virtually wiped out in the early 2010's. 

IDK maybe there's a pro-life Tejano Dem representing the RGV in the state senate who could still fill this role, but I seriously doubt it.  Rural white ancestral Dem areas aren't relevant enough for a Manchin or even Fetterman type to take off. 

Cuellar will be fine, honestly.

[Trump Pressures Republicans to Pass a Law to Keep Him Out of Jail Forever]

Trump Pressures Republicans to Pass a Law to Keep Him Out of Jail Forever

Donald Trump likes to tell anyone who will listen that he’s absolutely convinced he will win his 2024 rematch against President Joe Biden. And, according to people who’ve spoken to the ex-president about this, Trump also seems convinced that if he wins another four years in the White House, state prosecutors will still be waiting for him on the other side of his term — ready to put him on trial, or even in prison, just as they are now.

To avoid such risks, the former and perhaps future president of the United States wants Congress to create a very specific insurance policy that would help keep him out of prison forever, two sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. Trump vaguely alluded to this idea last week outside his New York criminal hush money trial, when he said he has urged Republican lawmakers to pass “laws to stop things like this.”

In recent months, the sources say, Trump has spoken to several GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill, attorneys, and other associates about the possibility of Republicans passing legislation in a second Trump term that would shield former presidents (i.e. Trump) from non-federal prosecutions.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-pressures-republicans-pass-law-140000013.html

we have too much age based discrimination in the work force as it is

     In general I agree, but no other sector is as dominated by people so old. Biden and Trump are both older than the vast majority of top CEOs, not to mention McConnell, Grassley, Pelosi, Hoyer, &c.

Newsom is as plastic as Desantis, if not more.

Also, look at CA. Of course Newsome is unelectable. He’s a snake.

Already too late for that. Parliament was prorogued today (official Dissolution is next week).

As party leader I was more thinking. I'm not sure how it would play out other than presumably being an almighty headache for Brady et al.

Speaking of the Reform Party, sports Youtuber Jon Bois released a fantastic documentary about their rise and subsequent collapse recently (Parts 2 and 3 are on Patreon, and worth the subscription imo).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqqaW1LrMTY&t=1s

I believe we are about to witness a demonstration of the Streisand Effect.

That's what I thought too when I started reading this thread.
Trump just can't help it, he was born with the thinnest skin possible.

https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1794052671621460132