Harris narrows Trump’s lead in Texas poll

https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2024/09/06/trump-leads-harris-texas-poll-election

38 Comments

  1. PlentyMacaroon8903 on

    Trump is still gonna win Texas but he may need to spend a little time and money there for security. And every dollar and minute spent there is one less somewhere else he also needs even worse.

  2. laceyourbootsup on

    The poll shows Trump gaining 3% and is now at 49%.

    It doesn’t show the lead narrowing, it shows an 8% increase in the eligible voter pool of which 3% went to Trump and 5% went to Harris.

    According to the poll, Trump is borderline unbeatable in Texas at 49%

  3. Yes and some Texas polls in 2016 showed Hillary over Trump.

    Don’t trust polling.

    Don’t trust Texas.

    Spice: am Texan

  4. The-Mandalorian on

    The Cheney’s also endorsed Colin Allred for Texas senate yesterday lol.

    The Republican Party is crumbling.

  5. While I don’t think the dems are winning Texas anytime soon I am curious to know if Cruz is actually more vulnerable than Trump.

    Iirc he underperforms Trumps metrics. So would that senate seat be more in play for the dems here than the presidential ticket?

  6. ramblershambler on

    hey ya’ll – we got ourselves a battleground state. Turns out Texans don’t want no school vouchers. We want fully funded public schools, no abortion bans, a grid that works good, do something about climate change, stop wasting billions on Operation Lone Star and we don’t want a criminal Attorney General who is a voter suppressor.

  7. mudriverrat07020 on

    I’m not holding my breath, but if Harris was to win Texas, I could die A happy old man knowing that there is hope for our country to unite once again. Anyone remember the days after 911? The whole country band together. It was a sight to behold. Our adversaries didn’t like that and have been working to destroy it ever since. They have almost succeeded. Vote blue!

  8. Texas has shitty turnout, largely from the efforts of the governor and SOS. If that can be remedied, Texas could easily be blue.

  9. Putin invited all the MAGAs to move to Russia. Since we know how much they love Russia they will probably all be going. I can’t think of one good reason why they wouldn’t.

    Not one.

  10. Educational-Exit430 on

    I personally know a good handful of people here in TX that would vote blue, but are classic cases of believing there is no point due to the overwhelming support of Republicans. There is by FAR enough democrats in TX to flip the state, all we need to do is help them to believe. I’m making more of a push this election than I ever have to get them out there!

  11. This is why the Texas Republicans have been frantically purging democrats from the voting rolls and stopping them from registering to vote.

  12. Texas has so many non votes it’s crazy. 5.8 mil went for trump, 5 mil for Biden and 10 mil stayed home, a lot of young people. Please vote!!!

  13. Let’s turn Texas blue! Obviously vote for Kamala, but let’s also get Ted Cruz out of Congress for good by voting for [Colin Allred!](https://colinallred.com/about/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw59q2BhBOEiwAKc0ijZ6QqviFUk7PUorCNvTWXdYC4mvfokq4dBrGNQEr34wC9ZtgGmNi7xoC-IoQAvD_BwE) A better future is possible, but it’s up to us to *VOTE*

     

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  14. Universe, if you can give me texas… hell, even just give me the senate seat in texas, I will go … idk… do something for a sad kitten somewhere? Something really nice, anyway.

  15. BawkBawkISuckCawk on

    Texas is always fool’s gold for Dems.

    Every single race there’s hopium and it ends up being the usual overwhelming GOP margins outside of Beto, who tanked his career by being an overly emotional gun grabber…in TX.

  16. Polls are completely useless unless they have 10-20,000 participants, 700 people does not dictate the mood of the country or one small area.

    I hate polls with such minuscule sample sizes.

  17. Love this for Texas, but it’s def not happening in this election. Greg and Ken are doing wayyyy too many things to block blue counties from registering new voters. The voter suppression here is unfathomable.

  18. UselessInsight on

    She’s not winning Texas.

    The Texas GOP has a dozen different ways to ratfuck elections in that state. She won’t be allowed to win.

  19. royhenderson771 on

    Texan here. I’m tired of the what if articles. Stop it. Texas is going to Trump. Focus on Florida. There’s a better chance there.

  20. I have very little belief that we’ll turn Texas blue but a: just the fact that it’s in okay is amazing and b: The fact that Republicans now have to campaign in Texas is a big fucking deal. It’s a big state and that’s going to be a lot of money they don’t get to spend elsewhere.

  21. Paxton, Abbott and the R contingency in this state will go to hell and back to ensure Texas does not flip.

  22. TheFrederalGovt on

    Don’t waste resources in Texas to lose by 3 percent…the goal is to win the election – not narrow the gap in Texas 

  23. Texas has the worst voter suppression in the country. The government removed a popular on-campus polling location at TAMU. The government only allows ONE ballot dropbox per county, meaning Harris County, a county with 5 MILLION people and greater in landmass than the state of Rhode Island, has the same number of ballot dropboxes as a county with fewer than 1,000 people. Texas also has no online voter registration, you have to be 65 or older to vote by mail, and no same-day voter registration. Abbott has BRAGGED about removed a million people from voter rolls, and Paxton is trying to prevent Harris County and Bexar County from sending voter registrations.

    Texas in 2020 (Trump won it by 5.5 points) was just about where Georgia was in 2016 (Trump won it by 5.09 points). And we all know what happened in Georgia in 2020. With a massive GOTV effort, Texas can flip.

  24. ThatB0yAintR1ght on

    Even if Texas doesn’t go blue, if they just force the GOP to spend more money there, then it will take it easier to take GA and PA.

  25. VictorChristian on

    This has been following the same trajectory since the early 2000’s – the spread of the GOP wins in a presidential election in TX has been dropping. Clinton was the first to bring it to single digits – Biden got to the 5’s… which is why his campaign started making some moves down there and maga hats literally ran the campaign bus off the road.

    They know what’s up. They know. Texas can flip. Maybe not this cycle, but it can flip – and that’s why Paxton is doing what he’s doing.

  26. EdwardOfGreene on

    Its a long shot, but not beyond possibility. Keep fighting the good fight in Texas!!!

    If nothing else, make the Republicans worry about it more. Only good can come from that.