Boring Retreads
It looks like the Texas House Democrats read Commentary. They are now talking about the high cost of home insurance. See their tweet from yesterday:
Texas House Democrats
From taking action on costly environmental disasters to protecting homeowners from unfair rate hikes, House Democrats are fighting for policies that keep insurance costs affordable for Texas families.
The crisis is here. The time to act is now
Stay on this issue.
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See this story from the Chron:
New internal polls by both major parties show U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is in big trouble as he faces the toughest GOP primary opponent of his political career in 2026.
A Republican poll obtained exclusively by the Houston Chronicle show Cornyn is down against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton among likely GOP primary voters by 17 percentage points. A Democratic poll shows him down more than 20 percentage points.
The numbers have some Republicans worried that Cornyn is in a race he can’t win, and instead could force a primary fight that costs millions of dollars and ends up bruising the eventual GOP nominee ahead of the general election. And they come as other key Republicans are weighing whether to join the race. U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt of Houston, in particular, has emerged as a possible contender.
State Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, said it’s time for someone to have a serious talk with Cornyn about whether he really wants to go through with another campaign that could quickly turn negative and costly.
“If I was an incumbent senator with these types of polling numbers, I probably wouldn’t run because you can’t win,” Bettencourt said.
Cornyn has said he’s not afraid of a primary against Paxton or anyone else. His campaign issued a similar statement Wednesday touting his easy primary victories over the decades and said he is “110% committed to running a vigorous reelection campaign.”
So far, his campaign has heavily targeted Paxton, using social media to call the third-term Republican “a fraud” and alluding to Paxton having an affair that was confirmed during his impeachment trial in the Texas Senate.
The new polling follows another survey earlier this spring, by Fabrizio, Lee & Associates, a firm used by the Trump campaign, that found Paxton up more than 20 percentage points in a head-to-head battle with Cornyn. Paxton said during a recent radio interview just over a week ago on KSEV-AM 700 in Houston that he later commissioned other polls that showed entering the race with a big advantage over Cornyn with likely GOP primary voters.
“The polls were all consistently strong,” Paxton said. His campaign has not publicly shared the findings.
Paxton’s not the only one cheering. Democrats are increasingly liking their chances in 2026 if Paxton were to be the GOP nominee, given his low approval numbers among all voters and the fact that it would be a midterm cycle that is historically tougher for candidates from the president’s party. Democrat Beto O’Rourke just last week told a crowd in Denton that he hadn’t closed off the idea of running in 2026, and he told the Dallas Morning News that Paxton as the nominee would be a “gift” to the party.
Other Democrats could be in the mix, including former U.S. Rep. Collin Allred of Dallas, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio and state Sens. Nathan Johnson of Dallas and Roland Guitierrez of San Antonio.
Here is the entire read: John Cornyn trailing Ken Paxton in Senate primary, says new polls.
Most of the Democrats mentioned are boring retreads of sorts, with Sen. Johnson being the exception. I don’t know Sen. Johnson.
Commentary would like to see a woman step forward. A Latina perhaps. They are certainly out there.
Democrats have a great opportunity. Let’s not blow it again with boring retreads.
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The Rockets are still alive in the playoffs. They will live to see another game tomorrow night.
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I was wondering which Astros would be featured in HEB commercials now that Alex Bregman and Kyle Tucker are gone. Check out the featured photo. Now you know.
Lance McCullers, Jr., will start this Sunday against the White Sox in Chicago.
McCullers and Jose Altuve are the only players still around from the 2017 World Series Championship team.
We are in Chicago for a four-games series against the White Sox. We are 16-14. The White Sox are 7-23. We know what we must do.
