Its been sorta expected to happen eventually. Texas is only not a swing state because of things like voter suppression. There's only 6 states with worse turnout than Texas. If Texas had the turnout of Minnesota, it might just be a blue state.

As if the GOP has any sense of introspection.

Mine was really long too, and was full of a lot of women there on their own. I hope that the taking of their autonomy and rights was enough to get a lot of them out there to boost our numbers.

A few years back the GOP closed a bunch of polling places in blue areas. It's flagrant voter suppression.

My wife waited an hour and a friend of hers waited 2 hours to vote. She also heard several stories of people passing out in line. It's disgraceful. This is absolutely driving down participation. I'm sure the state GOP would even say if you can't stand in a line for over an hour while it's sunny and high 80s maybe you just don't care about voting that much.

There are usually fewer early voting locations compared to election day so with record turnout, the lines have been longer

Republican areas tend to be less densely populated, so the number of people to voting locations ratio makes lines there generally less long

Personally I've never had any issues with lines despite living in a heavily blue district. It's worth noting that as election day gets closer more early voting locations open, voting the first day of early voting sounds like a bad idea in terms of lines. Obviously this isn't going to be the case for every district, but when only a handful of places are open for the first day of early voting it's inevitable they'll be packed.

I personally have bigger issues with the fact that the majority of polling locations are churches and that political signage is allowed outside of them.

If nothing else, Texas could finally oust Ted Cruz..

You can't gerrymander a statewide election like US Senator or President. Those are total number of votes across all voters in the state. The state senators and representatives are definitely gerrymandering.

It's also possible for Texas to go blue this election. Hillary needed 800,000 votes (5% of the registered voters) and Biden needed 630,000 votes (3.5% of the registered voters). It's been really close the last couple presidential elections and Beto was really close to ousting Cruz in 2018.

Don't forget, Biden won more votes in TX than he did in NY and Trump received less votes in TX than CA in 2020. We can definitely flip this year, we just need a large turnout. Historically speaking, Dems win with large voter turnout out and we are breaking records this year.

thats something that should have zero relevance in any election. if you live within a hundred miles of a post you should be able to vote on that post regardless if your "district" is outside of it

States don't vote in a vacuum, in any scenario where Trump loses Texas he also loses closer states.

There’s technically a mathematical possibility but if he loses Texas, his campaign is completely over

Short answer is yes. We don't need a marginal difference, we need to be blue in lots of swing states.

That would be the funniest shit, especially after a buildup like it has been.

About 640k votes, 46.5% to 52.1%. It's a tough hurdle, as he won that same percentage in 2016, although Clinton only had 43.5% and a third party probably ate some of Trump's votes.

He'll likely win, but by less. Its a pretty big margin, even if Trump openly pisses on military graves while Harris is a proud owner of a glock.

What do you mean by this? Who is targeting them and in what way?