By James Turnage, author of “Down from the Mountain”

Texas has been a red state for decades. However, with Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s illegitimate president, it is possible that Texas could turn blue. He has alienated the Hispanic community for the last four years and their votes could move the state into the Democratic column.

A recent poll by Univision revealed this possibility. “The Latino vote could be decisive,” the polling finds. “A large majority of Hispanics (69%) surveyed in the state said they intend to vote for the Democratic candidate, compared with 19% who plan to support Trump (also including undecided voters who are leaning one way or another).” Overall. 44% of registered voters said they will vote for the Democratic candidate while just 33% say they’ll go Trump. “If undecided voters leaning one way or the other are included, the advantage would be 47% to 42% in favor of the Democrats.”

The right-wing has many problems. Internally, they are divided between a few moderates, the extremists in the TEA Party, and a group who has moved so far to the right they are useless and call themselves the “Freedom Caucus.”

In 2009 Moscow Mitch McConnell created the ‘party of no,’ and Republicans have proven that they have no ideas, support special interests, and are unable to govern America.

50 percent of all Texans under the age of 18 are Hispanic.

There is a great possibility that minorities will control the results of the 2020 election today, and probably for years to come.

Republicans refuse to accept the fact that ‘pure whites’ are a dying demographic. Diversity is growing. Marriage between different races and ethnicities are more commonplace than the right-wing chooses to believe.

Texas is just the beginning. Within the next 20 years other red states will turn purple and maybe blue. We must never have a repeat of the tragedy which is Donald John Trump.

Tell everyone; “the truth lives here.”

Op-ed by James Turnage

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