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It's not about race...
Talaricomis more progressive and can convince people to agree with him.
Crockett is more conservative and just yells at people, that's why the NRSC manipulated her into running, why after that came out she refused to acknowledge it, and why she's now claiming the reason she lost is racism and she's suing.
Even if we were skipping a general and either one was guaranteed to be a Texas Senator, Talarico.was the best choice.
It wasn't just "who's most electable" and frankly it's concerning that so many people didn't look deeper than skin color but are so opinionated on this.
You're the reason the NRSC tried this manipulation, because it worked on you.
We can't afford for it to happen again, look into candidates and what they actually have as a platform. Not just who's the most outrageous on social media.
Ah, but you're forgetting that this is america where if a white man wins any competition against a black woman, the only conceivable reason has to be racism.
If people vote based on the merits of the individuals' policy platforms or who they receive their funding from, then it's racism plain and simple. Only the people whose voting choices are entirely based on skin color aren't racist. Anything else is colorblind racism.
In case it isn't clear:
/s, but some people do insist on this unironically
She’s not perfect but your first statement invalidates the rest of what you said when it comes to election strategy. If you don’t think part of the reason he won is because he’s white you are part of the problem.
Also don’t bother responding, I don’t debate fools
You're literally falling for Republican propaganda...
https://www.notus.org/senate/jasmine-crockett-nrsc-texas-senate
Shitlibs can't comprehend a world where their identity isn't the center of the universe.
It's part of it, of course. He's more "electable" (cough hhhwhite).
But there's a lot to dislike about Jasmine Crockett for this particular race without even getting into policy - just campaign strategy.
Her strategy is to energize dem voters in Texas at the expense of angering conservatives and "moderates". She's good at that, and has been vocally slapping down Republican politicians on the hill for a while now. That will all be used against her by the Republican opposition in this race. They will use her viral clips in smear campaigns to energize Republican voters to save their state from the woke angry black lady - that is a message that will land great with their base and even with many "moderates/undecideds". There's a reason the republican party has backed her campaign, and it isn't because they think she can win. It's about race and gender, but also messaging.
Talarico is much more mild mannered and has a strategy of winning over Republican voters. That is not usually a winning strategy. But in Texas when many people want an alternative to Trump that shares their christian values? It's got a real shot. People are fucking stupid and care more about messaging than actual politics. He's got the messaging that will appeal to them. He's a seminarian. He looks like a choir boy. He is fucking great at rhetoric. He is electable for more reasons than just race.
The worst part of this, is that you and other people do see it that way.
The thing that really bothers me is that Republicans vote against their interests, "leftists" vote on what they think someone's interests are, and the majority just wants to fucking live. And we get outvoted on hate or speculation every single time.
And when I say we, I mean us.
Again, I was ignoring policy in that comment.
I believe Talarico's policies/positions and alignments (especially regarding Israel & trans rights) are better.
That is policy. I'm not here to say you're wrong. I'm honestly just a bit shell shocked at what I was doing. I tend to agree with most on here, but I got taken by surprise with this candidate specifically.
He was the better candidate with a more attractive message for the target audience.
They also had the earned media from the Trump/ Colbert thing.
I genuinely think Crockett wins without that. That was hundreds of millions in earned media, and just an unforced error on the part of Trump.
If Trump had just "done nothing", that Talarico interview maybe gets 80k views coming from people who just "Like Colbert". Instead it got millions of views because it was the thing everyone was interested in for 48 hours. And it got a lot of people who would have not known who Talarico was to learn the name.