{"id":50755,"date":"2022-03-02T20:26:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50755"},"modified":"2022-03-02T22:26:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T22:26:21","slug":"get-busy-rep-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50755","title":{"rendered":"Get busy, Rep. Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let\u2019s examine a few numbers from the Third Congressional District race that is heading for a May runoff between incumbent Van Taylor and former Collin County Judge Keith Self.<\/p>\n

With 99% percent of the vote tabulated from Tuesday\u2019s Republican primary, Taylor has collected 31,168 votes.<\/p>\n

Self has collected 16,959 ballots; third place went to Suzanne Harp, who collected 13,319 votes; fourth place went to Rickey Williams, who has 1,721 ballots; the fifth-place candidate is Jeremy Ivanovskis, with 814 votes. All told, the anti-Taylor vote count totals 32,133 ballots.<\/p>\n

OK, they\u2019re still counting ballots at the Collin County Courthouse. I don\u2019t expect the percentages to change dramatically but consider the following.<\/p>\n

Taylor needs to gin up a lot of return voters for the runoff, given that taken altogether, the challengers finished with nearly 1,000 more votes combined than Taylor reeled in. I don\u2019t know anything about Williams or Ivanovskis, but I do know that Self and Harp are cut from the same kooky cloth; they are The Donald Cultists. Indeed, Harp calls herself an \u201cAmerica First Republican,\u201d which is code for \u201cI am a Trumpkin.\u201d Moreover, Self has swilled The Big Lie potion about the 2020 election being \u201cstolen\u201d from The Donald.<\/p>\n

Do you get my drift here? Self\u2019s voters are\u00a0highly motivated<\/em>\u00a0to turn out in the runoff. Harp\u2019s supporters, I am going to presume, are far more comfortable with Self than with Taylor. They, too, might need little persuading to vote in the runoff.<\/p>\n

As for Van Taylor\u2019s bloc of supporters, they well might be a touch more apathetic than those who favor the surviving challenger or at least one of the also-rans in the Tuesday GOP primary.<\/p>\n

Thus, the result of the runoff will depend on just two words:\u00a0voter turnout<\/em>. My advice to Rep. Taylor? You\u2019d better get busy, young man \u2026 and\u00a0start working the phone lines to those who voted for you in the primary.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s examine a few numbers from the Third Congressional District race that is heading for a May runoff between incumbent Van Taylor and former Collin County Judge Keith Self. With 99% percent of the vote tabulated from Tuesday\u2019s Republican primary, Taylor has collected 31,168 votes. Self has collected 16,959 ballots; third place went to Suzanne … Continue reading Get busy, Rep. Taylor<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[9,14],"tags":[9631,1424,8271],"class_list":["post-50755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-political-news","tag-big-lie","tag-donald-trump","tag-van-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50755","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=50755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50758,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50755\/revisions\/50758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}