Bill Kristol

But they've got this paramilitary force roving around that can be deployed to cities, to blue cities, including blue cities and red states, which are particularly important places for some House elections and for some key Senate elections if the Democrats are going to pick up.

Senate seats, and it can be deployed.

The governor won't resist the deployment.

They can do a lot to make the playing field unequal in the month or two before the election.

I think it was a big deal.

And certainly it is precisely because the electorate is going so much against Trump that I worry the most about them trying to overcome the wishes of the electorate in November.

So these are big districts, I can quite realize.

There are 31 members of the Texas State Senate, so there are 35, I think, Texas members of Congress.

So these state districts are each as large, literally, I mean, the same size as a congressional district.

They don't always coincide with the congressional, but they're the same size.

Now, it's a special election on Saturday, so they got a turnout of just under 100,000.

They'll get 250 or something in November.

But 100,000, it's not one of these special elections that's 7,242 to 6,109.

I mean, you know, we're talking 100,000 voters.

This particular district is red, as you said.

It's a huge swing from 17 plus 17 Trump to plus 14 for the Democrat.

This time it was held by a Republican who had resigned, I think, to run for some other office.

Tarrant County as a whole is a swingish, reddish, swingish district.

I think Biden carried it very narrowly in 2020, and then Trump in 24.

It's suburban, ex-urban, Fort Worth, Dallas.