If You’re Explaining, You’re Losing

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TEXAS RURAL REPORTER

Something important just happened in Texas politics, and it’s worth writing about — because unlike me, most folks in rural Texas don’t spend their days tracking political chatter out of Austin or Washington.

On Saturday night, in Tarrant County — one of Texas’ largest Republican counties — Democrats flipped a Texas Senate seat. The seat had been held by Republicans since the early 1990s. Donald Tru…