{"id":698572,"date":"2026-11-04T17:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=698572"},"modified":"2026-11-04T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:42:28","slug":"tuesdays-blue-tsunami-proves-texas-problem-was-never-candidate-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=698572","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday\u2019s Blue Tsunami Proves Texas\u2019 Problem Was Never \u2018Candidate Quality\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-03-at-7.48.06-PM-scaled-e1793757039348-1200x675.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"POTUS and Ken Paxton at rally in Lubbock, TX\" \/>A closer look at the margins doesn\u2019t lend any credence to the idea that Paxton or French alone torpedoed the GOP\u2019s chances.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-03-at-7.48.06-PM-scaled-e1793757039348-1200x675.png\" title=\"Tuesday\u2019s Blue Tsunami Proves Texas\u2019 Problem Was Never \u2018Candidate Quality\u2019\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A closer look at the margins doesn\u2019t lend any credence to the idea that Paxton or French alone torpedoed the GOP\u2019s chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}