Jasper Scherer

Politics editor @TexasTribune. Formerly @HoustonChron, @ExpressNews, @NorthwesternU. Email: [email protected]

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

A Texas journalism/#txlege hard launch: We’re married! 🤍💍

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

Breaking: The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday confirmed the country’s first case of New World screwworm — the parasitic fly poised to harm the state’s $15 billion cattle industry — in South Texas. https://t.co/rIQhGMDXrf

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

KEN PAXTON, appearing on @RuthlessPodcast earlier today, said his meeting with Thune was “very gracious” and focused on “working together.”

On GOP coming together post-primary: “You can't make everybody come together, but you can certainly try to reach out and I personally just move on from any things that were said you didn't appreciate, but you know, it's a campaign, you know how they are. And you know this one was somewhat tough at times, but it doesn't matter anymore. We got to go on and beat the Democrat. That's the key. The guy that I'm running against, as you well know, is quite radical and maybe would have trouble getting elected in California. He's so radical.”

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

"The ad depicts [@GregAbbott_TX] as a basketball-playing string puppet, controlled by men in suits, who force him to commit 'turnover after turnover of our money to his donors.'" #txgov #txlege

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

.@GinaHinojosaTX launches first ad of Texas governor’s race, to be streamed during NBA Finals https://t.co/4r4u2erPSL via @kaylaguo_ #txgov

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

.@GinaHinojosaTX launches first ad of Texas governor’s race, to be streamed during NBA Finals https://t.co/4r4u2erPSL via @kaylaguo_ #txgov

[Punchbowl News @PunchbowlNews]

🚨 NEW FLY OUT DAY TOMORROW ✈️

Texas GOP @SenTedCruz sits down with @JakeSherman to break down the Protect College Sports Act, Texas politics and more.

Stick around: @TexasTribune's DC Correspondent @birenbomb and our own Policy Reporter @sn_handler stop by for townhouse fun!

📺 Streaming soon. Subscribe now! https://t.co/gtq4R9cLGk

[Kayla Guo @kaylaguo_]

First in @TexasTribune: National Democrats @DLCC are looking to flip 12 Texas House seats this cycle in a newly expanded battleground list.

A dozen flips would put Democrats one seat shy of an even split in a chamber they haven't held since 2003. #txlege https://t.co/WC5HSBtnta

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New: Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller will speak at a bipartisan forum alongside Clayton Tucker, the Democratic candidate running for the Republican’s seat, to discuss the impact of data center construction in Texas. https://t.co/LJS39O9HcY

[Stephen Simpson @Steve55Simpson]

Letitia Plummer never doubted she would win her runoff race to become the Democratic nominee to lead Harris County, the state’s largest.

Everyone else did.

Read how an upset occurred in Harris County:

https://t.co/N0bmqzX4ug

[Kayla Guo @kaylaguo_]

New: Texas Democratic Party Chair Kendall Scudder backed a proposal calling on his party's lawmakers to abandon GOP House Speaker Dustin Burrows.

Burrows relied on Democratic votes to win the speakership last year. #txlege

via @TexasTribune: https://t.co/LjemGnbWzy

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

ICYMI, a good read from yesterday about Trump’s role in hastening the Texas GOP’s evolution from the party of Cornyn/Bush/biz-minded conservatism to the Paxton/insurgent brand of today #txlege #txsen

[Kayla Guo @kaylaguo_]

From Cornyn to Paxton: How Trump helped accelerate the Texas GOP’s transformation https://t.co/amVdK4HkUF via @eklib @TexasTribune:

[T.L. Langford @tlangford]

Texas using DPS records to confirm citizenship of voters flagged by federal database https://t.co/ZsnLrqbHR1

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

Initial look from @kaylaguo_ at the messaging Paxton and Talarico are rolling out as the #TXSEN race pivots to November >

More TK tonight from Talarico’s first campaign appearance since Paxton secured the GOP nomination
https://t.co/83nO2RAsq1 via @TexasTribune

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Texas state Rep. and Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico responded to GOP attacks over his past remark that God is “non-binary,” telling @edokeefe that some of his previous comments “missed the mark.”

“There are some statements that I’ve made that I certainly regret,” Talarico said, adding that Ken Paxton, whom he will face in November, “is intentionally clipping my cringey comments to distract from his career of corruption.”

[Mike Morris @mmorris011]

How Letitia Plummer, a self-styled 'underdog,' beat Annise Parker in the runoff for Harris County judge https://t.co/N3gnyc8GkW via @houstonchron @Thelastlomax

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

So now what? @birenbomb unpacks one of the big questions about the next chapter of the #TXSEN race >

Senate GOP leaders spent months trashing Paxton. Can they turn the page and unify against Talarico? https://t.co/qFXNQuIvib via @TexasTribune

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

It gets down to a dozen if you look at pre-2009 (pre-Obama & tea party) and exclude Guillen, who joined the GOP post-2014:

Craddick, King, Sessions, Kolkhorst, Hughes, Carter, Geren, Hunter, Darby, Guillen, Parker, Huffman, Paxton

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

Texas has 133 Republicans currently serving in Congress & the state Legislature.

Among the Rs who won their primaries this year or who aren’t up for reelection (i.e. those who could still be in office after this year), just 30 (23%) began serving as elected legislators pre-2014

[Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks]

Truly humiliating margin for Cornyn. The pre-2014 Republican Party of Texas is dead, dead, dead.

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

The dwindling list

Congress
Paxton, Cruz, Sessions, Carter, Weber, Williams, Fallon, Gooden, Goldman, Toth

#txlege
Craddick, Geren, Hunter, Guillen, Darby, Button, Lozano, Bonnen, Frank, King, Leach

King, Kolkhorst, Hughes, Parker, Huffman, Perry, Schwertner, Campbell, Ashby

[Kayla Guo @kaylaguo_]

“The last of the gentlemen Republicans”: John Cornyn’s four-decade political career ends with a MAGA uprising

@TexasTribune's political obituary for Sen. John Cornyn, felled tonight by a man he battered for months as morally unfit for public office:
https://t.co/tzQuJWHOo1

[Jasper Scherer @jaspscherer]

Notably, French will face a Dem opponent, @Jon_RosenthalTX, who was raised Jewish and identifies himself as “multi-religious,” but says that ID “starts with Judaism.” https://t.co/JB3ckCGlem

(Re: his RRC-related background, he’s an oil and gas engineer by trade)

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

Less than a year ago, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called for French's resignation as Tarrant County GOP chair after he polled X followers on whether Jews or Muslims were a bigger threat to the country: https://t.co/nPS1jr3831