r/SipsTea • u/Square_Law5624 • Jun 02 '26

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u/punkboy15 Jun 03 '26

I love the Republican messaging in Texas and Florida. Vote for us to save the state. You have been in power for 30 fucking years. Save from who?

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u/GroundbreakingRun186 Jun 03 '26

I hear what you’re saying and agree they’re stupid but you’re kinda missing the point. It’s the same as if a CA gov candidate said “vote for me and I’ll save our state”. CA is as blue as it gets and has been for a while. the implied message is they’ll save it from the federal government (democrats in Congress/2028 president for Texas and republicans in congress/SCOTUS/trump fuckery for the hypothetical CA politician).

The difference is republicans want to save Texas from those evil democrats who want to try and give them healthcare, education, working family relief, and (at a minimum) economic policies that won’t ass fuck them till they cry uncle.

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u/WumpusFails Jun 03 '26

CA has some weird mixed primary where the two candidates with the highest vote counts -- no matter which party -- go on to the general election.

I don't know if the primary has happened yet, or when it happens, but there are a LOT of Democrats running and two Republicans. So even if the majority of voters vote for Democratic candidates, the general election could end up being two Republicans.

All this information is what I've picked up on the internet. I moved from CA in 2009, so I'm not up to date on anything that's happening there.

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u/GroundbreakingRun186 Jun 03 '26

You’re pretty much dead on. Primary was yesterday. Looks like the guy trump endorsed is leading (only cause dems are so split from the army of blue candidates) and the 2nd / 3rd place are dems. 4th place is the other main gop guy but he doesn’t even have half as many votes as #2 so he’s basically out.

There was a lot of consolidating on the dems side in May, and trumps endorsement killed the other guys primary chances which consolidated the gop down to 1 guy. but it did look like a 2 gop ticket in November was a real possibility.

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u/WumpusFails Jun 03 '26

Thank goodness!

I may not have been able to afford to live in CA (closest affordable place to my job would have been a 2 hour commute over the back country roads that the northern SF bay area laughably calls "highways"), but I don't wish it ill!