{"id":24683,"date":"2026-05-27T10:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=24683"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:18:54","slug":"semi-super-tuesday-for-dems-tectonic-texas-shift-to-left-looks-credible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/27\/semi-super-tuesday-for-dems-tectonic-texas-shift-to-left-looks-credible\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-Super Tuesday for Dems? Tectonic Texas Shift to Left Looks Credible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s retribution campaign targeting supposedly &#8220;disloyal&#8221; GOPers grabbed the headlines. Republicans should in fact be very worried.<\/p>\n<p>NBC: Democratic Rep. Al Green unseated by Rep. Christian Menefee in Texas primary with two incumbents &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/tx-18-house-runoff-primary-election-winner-menefee-beats-green-rcna346549\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NBC: Democrat Johnny Garcia wins Texas House primary after rival\u2019s antisemitic comments drew national rebukes &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/democrat-johnny-garcia-wins-texas-house-primary-rivals-antisemitic-com-rcna346547\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NBC: Rep. Julie Johnson unseated in Texas Democratic primary by predecessor Colin Allred &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/tx-33-texas-runoff-house-winner-allred-defeats-johnson-rcna346550\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Marcotte at Salon: Trump will regret endorsing Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate primary &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2026\/05\/27\/trump-will-regret-endorsing-ken-paxton-in-the-texas-senate-primary\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AlterNet: Texas GOP primary suffers &#8216;truly low turnout&#8217; as only MAGA voters show up to vote &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/paxton-cornyn-talarico\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: Cook Political Report Shifts Texas Senate Rating After Paxton Win &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/live-updates_n_6a1570ece4b062ca52d4f285\/liveblog_6a16726ce4b062ca52d5c91d\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NY Times: Cornyn\u2019s Defeat Fuels Tensions With President Trump in Senate G.O.P. &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/27\/us\/trump-cornyn-paxton-senate-republicans.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: The GOP\u2019s $100 Million Problem Is Giving Democrats A Texas-Sized Opportunity &#8211; more <a href=\"http:\/\/The GOP\u2019s $100 Million Problem Is Giving Democrats A Texas-Sized Opportunity\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mediaite: MS NOW panel giddy over &#8216;huge win for Democrats&#8217; after election blowout &#8211; more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/paxton-texas-ms-now-new\/?utm_source=superhead\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s retribution campaign targeting supposedly &#8220;disloyal&#8221; GOPers grabbed the headlines. Republicans should in fact be very worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24737,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683\/revisions\/24737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}