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Was a rough night

Tonight was a rough night... but I am glad to stand side-by-side with powerful leaders who want to bring Texas to a better place 🇨🇱 We all thank everyone for showing up, and for the support. Let's now call it a night, go to work tomarrow, close the next day, and then; we get back to work again 💪

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Well, first of all, thank you guys very much for being here. I mean, it really means a lot to us. Really not means a lot to us candidates. There are three things that we struggle here with Texas. One is low voter turnout. Two is the gerrymandering, and three is making sure we have to have candidates to uh run for office.

Now, I got good news for you from there. First of all, uh in Denton County, we have a three out of five state house races run unimposed last time. This time, we do not have any Republican in any state house seat throughout all Texas not being uh unimposed. So we have candidates. So we're making progress there.

Jurymandering's a problem too, but I've got good news for you there, they can only redistrict every 10 years. And both California and Texas are the two top states in the country with the largest growing population spikes. And as our population increases, as we begin to develop more homes here, as more people move here, that works against their gerrymandering because eventually this makes their gerrymandering outdated over time as our population increases.

Now, all that said, and voter turnout is still something that we struggle with, but it's not something we're gonna fix overnight, but we're gonna fix it over time. The unit's still young. I don't really know how these things are gonna happen quite yet. You never know. I remember back in 2016 how I really thought Hillary

was going to win. I remember back in my primaries and home offer, I was being a little pessimistic. You really never know how things are gonna turn out until early the end of the night or sometimes even the next day. But I look forward to seeing what happens, and I want to thank you all for coming out.

Well, I'm not no matter what happens, the fight is not ending. We are not a deep red state. We're a non voting state, and we're very much a purple state past that. If we can get everyone out to vote every single time, we will flip blue eventually over time. Thank you.