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Drive from Bridge City to Orange on 87 this afternoon at 5 oâclock and see if you can figure out whatâs changed in the last 4 years or so.Â
What the writer stated wrt crossover votes in the primary/runoff:
"Covey and his supporters Paxton and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Phelan only won because Democrats crossed over to vote in the Republican Primary for him. Paxton said Coveyâs campaign identified âat leastâ 1,442 Democrats who voted early in Jefferson County in the primary runoff.
Texas does not have party registration, but a voterâs primary voting history is public. The Covey campaign has not released its methodology behind its claim, butÂ
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 by The Texan news website found that 9% of Republican voters in the March District 21 primary had voted in one of the previous four Democratic primaries. However, only 5% of that group had voted in all four previous Democratic primaries.
What Phelanâs opponents did not mention is historically Democratic Jefferson County is undergoing a political transition towards the Republican party â the county judge switched his affiliation to the GOP in 2017 â so many residents have a mixed primary voting history. And Phelanâs allies in the House dismissed the idea that liberals swung the election.
"I knocked on doors, hundreds and hundreds of doors, made calls for Dade,â Republican Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, said on Mark Davisâ radio program Wednesday. âI did not speak to a single Democrat down here in HD21. Not a single one." "
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