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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obama just walked into an Austin taco shop and called James Talarico Texas's "next senator." MAGA isn't ready. Barack Obama doesn't do retail politics much anymore.

He doesn't hop on planes to swing through random campaign stops. So when he shows up at Taco Joint in Austin on a Tuesday afternoon, going booth to booth introducing patrons to "your next governor and senator," that's not a photo op. That's a signal.

The "next senator" he's talking about is James Talarico, a 36-year-old Texas state representative, former public school teacher, and progressive Christian seminarian who won the Democratic primary in March.

The "next governor" is Gina Hinojosa, a state rep running against Greg Abbott. And Obama wasn't just stopping by. He worked the room. He made the pitch. He brought the full weight of his name into a state Democrats haven't won statewide in over three decades.

Here's why this race matters. Talarico didn't just decide to run for Senate. He decided after watching Texas Republicans, at Trump's direct request, ram through a mid-decade gerrymander to steal congressional seats.

Talarico was one of the Democrats who fled the state to deny Republicans a quorum. They lost that fight. The courts upheld the rigged map. And Talarico's response was to run for the U.S. Senate.

He's not running against just any Republican. He's running against the winner of a Ken Paxton vs. John Cornyn primary runoff later this month. Paxton, the Attorney General who was impeached by his own party for corruption, then acquitted, then kept right on going.

Or Cornyn, the establishment retread who has voted with Trump on basically everything that matters. Either way, Talarico's opponent will be carrying every piece of Republican baggage the modern GOP has accumulated.

Obama has been quietly putting his weight behind a new generation of Democrats.

Texas is still an uphill climb. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. But the trend lines are real. Trump is historically unpopular. Republicans are gerrymandering because they know they're losing ground. And now Obama is on the ground.[/quote]

Respect to Obama for getting on the ground, but an Austin Taco shop is not where he needs to be in this race.[/quote]

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