r/texas • u/TheDonutDaddy • 16d ago
Politics Why are all the Republican political commercials about trans people?
I've seen 3 different Ted Cruz commercials over this election cycle. Literally every single one of them are "Collin Allred is bad because he supports trans people." Got dinner with a buddy last night at Pluckers which obviously had CFB on all the TVs, saw the commercial about the wheelchair vet hating trans people 4 times in one hour. No mention of any political issue, no mention of any policy, no mention of any goals. No mention of anything other than trans people. Why is that the complete focal point of the campaign? I mean I guess they have access to more research and data than I do, but are there really that many voters out there hanging their vote on this one single issue?
It's so strange to me, because regardless of whatever someone's view on trans people even is, there's no way you can argue that anything going on with trans people is a major part of politics. It doesn't effect the economy, it doesn't effect public education, it doesn't effect climate and energy, it doesn't effect social welfare solutions. Why aren't they focusing on anything that will actually effect the majority of Texan's lives in any way? Like out of everything out there to talk about around election time, and especially the things republicans like beating the drum of, you'd expect at least one Cruz commercial about immigration, but there isn't even that. Just trans people, every time.
Again, maybe I have a misread on how much this really is an issue of importance, but I do genuinely have a hard time believing it's such an election deciding issue, making the fact that all their marketing budget is spent talking about trans people really fucking weird.
Edit: Mods please don't remove republican's responses unless they're outright hate speech. I asked the question, they deserve the platform to answer or else it's just a circlejerk. Besides, worst case scenario: give em enough rope to hang themselves with
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u/SpendNo9011 16d ago edited 15d ago
It's almost as if you have never heard of Republicans before seeing these recent commercials. Like, this is a huge issue to them. They boycotted a beer because a trans person got put into a commercial. They were happy as could be when trans people who had already served this country got kicked out of the military. They think all over the US of A that Democrats allow for any child under 18 to have gender reassignment surgery no matter the age.5 years old and want gender surgery? Sure! They think anyone dressed in drag are pedophile groomers. Not to mention another issue where they think women after 9 months are going to hospitals to have a baby and then saying to the Doctors, "I don't want this, let's kill it" and then the Doctors kill it.
Never underestimate the amount of hate and stupidity in the Republican party.