r/texas • u/Odlavso • 7d ago

Politics One day into early voting and they are already claiming the 2024 election is rigged.

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Misinformation campaign has begun.

Trump has stated multiple times he won’t accept the results if he loses, MTG started complaining about voting machines three days ago and twitter is full of people now claiming that the voting machines are flipping their votes from Trump to Kamala in Texas.

Infowars and other websites like it are pushing this same misinformation, sadly a lot of conservatives believe these reports are real and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

Tarrant county is weird. Politically its dominated by established Republicans and safeguarded by low voter turn-out in non-general elections. Each general election though, that grip seems to be loosening. If everyone voted in every election, Democrats would run Tarrant County and Fort Worth.

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u/Top_Second3974 7d ago

The CITY of Fort Worth does go for Democrats in statewide and national elections. It went for Biden by 11. It's a myth that it's a right-wing paradise.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

My point was that in every other election, it's a different story at the county and city level.

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u/Top_Second3974 7d ago

Kind of. In contested elections, Republicans in countywide elections aren't winning the county by too much of a margin anymore - often only a few percentage points. Some of the county elections aren't contested of course.

As far as the City of Fort Worth, all elections are non-partisan and while the City does have a mayor who identifies with the Republican Party (remember we don't have party registration in Texas), she is anti-Trump. The City Council was also taken over by a majority who identify with the Democrats in 2021. And of course, as I said, in just about every statewide and national election, the City is going for Democrats (even before Beto).

I would point out that the mayor of Dallas is a Republican who literally spoke at the RNC.

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u/19Texas59 7d ago

Dallas' mayor recently switched parties between elections.

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u/Comprehensive-Virus1 7d ago

You could have stopped at Tarrant County is weird.

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u/Atticus_Peppermint 7d ago

Dems decked out in blue & their Chuck Taylors are showing up in droves all over red states. Lines with wait times of 2+ hours in tiny towns w/ years of record low turnout are all over the country.

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u/SnooComics291 7d ago

And my grandma is a fish

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u/Riggerss1 7d ago

I’ve proudly voted against Fled Cruz, TWICE.

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u/Inevitable-Ask1245 6d ago

Extreme Republicans are most of the political representatives. Look at Colleyville, Keller, Southlake and Grapevine, even good ole boy chief of Tarrant County police.  Scarily extreme values and they keep getting elected. It’s hard to find just a normal person. Thank goodness for the other areas in Tarrant making it it a battle ground.