A huuuuuge Texas Republican Primary endorsement just dropped.
Former President Donald Trump has officially waded into the Texas House Republican primaries with his first endorsement, throwing his support behind House District (HD) 21 candidate David Covey, who is challenging incumbent House Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont).
In an exclusive interview with The Texan last year, Trump first indicated his intent to endorse Covey, saying, “Well, tell David to get ready,” after slamming Phelan for the House’s role in impeaching Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Now, in a post on Trump’s social media website Truth Social, the former president and leading 2024 GOP presidential candidate made his support for Covey official.
“David Covey is running against Dade Phelan, the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, who led the Fraudulent Impeachment of the recently re-elected, in a landslide, Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton,” Trump wrote. “David is an America First Conservative who will Secure the Border, Restore Election Integrity, Protect our Families, and Military/Vets, and Defend our under siege Second Amendment.”
Covey reacted to the news with a statement, writing that he spoke with Trump and reassured the president that he intends to win the race.
“When I spoke with President Trump, a few minutes ago, I reassured him that for the sake of Texas’s future, we will win this race for President, and my race to unseat liberal Dade Phelan,” Covey said.
Naturally this is big news. Texas House District 21 Republican voters who hadn’t been paying attention to how Phelan has repeatedly thwarted conservative priorities and foolishly impeached Paxton now have no excuse to ignore Phelan’s sins.
Phelan needs to go, as well as every one of his enablers in the Texas House.
The weeds making up the Democrat-backed Straus-Bonnen-Phelan axis must be pulled out by their roots so they can’t grow back.
Tags: 2024 Election, Dade Phelan, David Covey, Donald Trump, Elections, Republicans, Texas, Texas House District 21
At some point, you have to start judging these assholes on what they actually do, not what they say they are going to do. Phelan acts like a Democrat; therefore, he is one.
I think we need to throw out the party BS, and just start going off the track records. Who cares if they say they’re Republican, when all they vote for is Democratic Party programs and ideology?
It would not take a hell of a lot to convince me that the majority of the Republican politicians were actually Democratic Party infiltrators operating under deep cover. That’s about the only damn thing that actually makes sense, given what they’ve been doing… Or, more accurately: Not doing.
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I agree completely with the need to purge the Texas GOP of all the Strauss / Bonnen / Phelan RINO machine members, starting with Phelan and his minions like John Kumpel.
But do not underestimate how hard it will be to unseat Phelan. His family is old Texas (Spindletop) money, and having been Speaker means he has truckloads of markers he can call in. Plus his district is in Jefferson County, which is not exactly known as a paragon of honest government.
“It would not take a hell of a lot to convince me that the majority of the Republican politicians were actually Democratic Party infiltrators operating under deep cover.”
I don’t think it’s quite so devious as that.
From the Texas Tribune, January 27, 2024:
“Recently, our party has strayed from its fundamental mission – growing the Republican Party by reaching new voters and advancing a platform that is grounded in conservative principles,’ [Texas GOP Vice President] Myers said in a statement. ‘Instead, we find ourselves in a state of disarray, fractured by internal divisions and marred by turmoil. This situation is untenable, and it’s time for a positive change.’”
The Old Guard feels threatened by the activist element in “their” party. So while the Republican Party may hold all state-wide offices, the hold on the OFFICE HOLDERS is slipping from the GOPes grasp.
The hard-corp Defend Texas Liberty PAC is “straying” from the principles (sic) of former Governor George W Bush who won office in 1994 by defeating Dorothy Ann Richards, an antigun Democrat. Oh, for the Golden Era of the Bush Family dynasty!
So the problem is not that the Illuminati are lurking in the Legislature’s basement. This is an unresolved conflict between the activist base and the party leadership.
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