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Texas’s heavily Democratic 18th Congressional District has an empty seat. State law gives Greg Abbott the power to delay the election to fill it.

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[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Vote his dumb ass out. Abbott does not represent Texans nor has he ever stood for anyone's interests but his own.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Too many of them have been smoking cow patties for too long to change that.

[–] dion_starfire@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sadly that's nearly impossible due to gerrymandering. For example, this is one of the districts in the state shaped to confine as many blue votes as possible to a single district: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s_35th_congressional_district

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Governor is a statewide race, gerrymandering may discourage a certain amount of voting due to apathy, but it doesn't really change how votes are counted.

Also, Biden AND Harris received more votes than Abbott did in the last three races. We have the votes to remove him, just not the will.