NBC News: Republicans may have found a crafty way to keep Democrats down in Texas
โThis is part of a very clear strategy by the Texas GOP to keep the demographic changes weโre seeing in Texas from being reflected at the ballot box,โ said Anthony Gutierrez, the executive director of the Texas branch of the government watchdog group Common Cause. โThis is one of the ways they could use a third-party candidacy to knock off a percentage point or two from a Democrat, allowing Republicans to retain power for a bit longer than maybe they otherwise would have.โ