Democrats last won Texas in a presidential race in 1976.
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Gerald R Ford was probably the reason Lawrence Peter wrote the Peter Principle, not to mention the backlash of Nixon/Watergate.
Allot of analogies to 1976 election and 2020. The GOP denied Reagan the nomination and selected Ford in 1976, only to be annihilated by Carter. Reagan came back like a tornado in 1980 and Cruz will too in 2020, rising from the ashes of a discredited GOP, or hopefully taking over an existent party or starting another.
A man can dream, cain't he?