{"id":15268,"date":"2016-06-15T01:55:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T01:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15268"},"modified":"2016-06-15T01:55:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T01:55:02","slug":"mauro-texas-is-no-battleground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15268","title":{"rendered":"Mauro: Texas is ‘no battleground’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Garry Mauro knows Texas perhaps as well as any politician who calls Texas “home.”<\/p>\n

So, when the former state land commissioner says that Texas isn’t a “battleground state” in the upcoming presidential election, it’s time to throw in the towel and ceded the state to Republican nominee Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

Or is it?<\/p>\n

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Mauro has signed on to help Hillary Clinton win the presidency. He’s as loyal a Democrat as you’ll find.<\/p>\n

I used to know Mauro pretty well. He’d call on us at the Beaumont Enterprise back when he served as land commissioner. He had placed coastal erosion and protection as a top priority of his office, an initiative we appreciated way down yonder on the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n

The last time I saw him was in 1998 as he ran for Texas governor against incumbent George W. Bush. Mauro lost big. <\/em><\/p>\n

Then he left elected public service.<\/p>\n

Even though Mauro believes Texas is still a red state, he is offering a glimmer of hope for Democrats in the form of the man who’s going to lead the GOP ticket this fall.<\/p>\n

As he told the San Antonio Express-News: “The prospect of a Clinton race against billionaire Donald Trump \u2014 who has offended a variety of groups including Latinos and women with his intemperate comments \u2014 will make it easier to get out the Democratic vote, Mauro agreed.<\/p>\n

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\u201c’With Donald Trump on the ticket, we now have a way to get our voters out,’ he said.”<\/p>\n

Therein lies the chance upon which Clinton will depend if she hopes to turn Texas from Republican red to possibly<\/em> Democratic blue.<\/p>\n

The key might lie in the Latino vote. Let’s face it, Trump has managed to deliberately offend that demographic group. He’s called illegal immigrants criminals; he’s declared that an American judge cannot\u00a0adjudicate a Trump University lawsuit solely because of his Mexican heritage.\u00a0Trump is\u00a0going to “build a wall” along our southern border.<\/p>\n

Will that bloc of voters turn out? Mauro hopes so, as does Clinton … obviously.<\/p>\n

The flicker of cynicism in me makes me wonder if Mauro isn’t low-balling expectations with the hope of pulling a major surprise on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n

Hey, he’s a politician, right?<\/p>\n\n

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Garry Mauro knows Texas perhaps as well as any politician who calls Texas “home.” So, when the former state land commissioner says that Texas isn’t a “battleground state” in the upcoming presidential election, it’s time to throw in the towel and ceded the state to Republican nominee Donald J. Trump. Or is it? http:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/local\/article\/Clinton-campaign-rep-Texas-not-a-8131516.php?t=c8877145b14b6b00f7&cmpid=twitter-premium Mauro … Continue reading Mauro: Texas is ‘no battleground’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[1853,6280,2022,2139,4603,4621,4622],"class_list":["post-15268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-garry-mauro","tag-gonzalo-curiel","tag-gulf-coast","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-texas-democrats","tag-texas-general-land-office","tag-texas-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15270,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268\/revisions\/15270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}