<p>Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) told PBS&#8217;s &#8220;Firing Line With Margaret Hoover&#8221; last week that the Republican Party needs to rapidly start making changes in the faces that represent the party and in its messaging if it wants to remain a player in U.S. politics, or else &#8220;there won’t be Republican Party in America.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There’s this term &#8230; &#8216;Texodus,&#8217; which refers to the six Republican members of the House of Representatives from Texas who are not running again,&#8221; host Margaret Hoover said. &#8220;What’s going on?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Every member has their own, you know, reason for why they’re leaving,&#8221; Hurd responded. &#8220;Mine is simple. I think I can help my country in different ways. I don&#8217;t think – just because we don&#8217;t have term limits doesn&#8217;t mean we can&#8217;t walk away from these jobs. I&#8217;ve always said to do this job well, you know, you have a shelf life of six, seven, eight years.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Some of my other colleagues have been in Congress for several decades, and they&#8217;re looking forward to spending more time with their grandkids,&#8221; Hurd continued. &#8220;So I think this notion of &#8216;Texodus&#8217; and whether Texas is in play, I think these are two separate issues, and I also believe Texas is in play.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Texas is a purple state,&#8221; Hurd continued. &#8220;Just because we don’t have a statewide elected Democrat doesn’t mean it&#8217;s not in play in 2020.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think Democrats have the real shot of taking over a majority in the statehouse in Texas, which means they’re going to be responsible for redistricting in 2021,&#8221; Hurd continued. &#8220;So the trends that we saw happen in California, then the northeast and recently in Virginia, all of those trends are in place in Texas.&#8221;</p>
<p>Recent reports from The New York Times and The Washington Post confirmed Hurd&#8217;s comments as both left-leaning publications <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-wapo-mass-immigration-demographic-changes-fueled-democrat-wins-in-virginia">admitted that mass immigration and changing demographics were key to the Democrats&#8217; wins in Virginia</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;You have said in a quote in The Washington Post that if the Republican Party in Texas doesn’t start looking like Texas, that there won’t be a Republican Party in Texas anymore,&#8221; Hoover interjected.</p>
<p>&#8220;And I think that applies to the rest of the country, and I would add, if the Republican Party doesn&#8217;t start looking like America and start appealing to all Americans, there won’t be Republican Party in America,” Hurd replied.</p>
<p>&#8220;And why should that matter to Democrats, and why should that matter to Independents?&#8221; Hurd continued. &#8220;The only way we have ever solved big problems in this country is by doing it together. The only way to do that is if you have a true competition of ideas in November.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I want to make sure we have a party that&#8217;s appealing to communities of color, people under the age of 29, [and] women with a college degree in the suburbs,&#8221; Hurd added. &#8220;Those are the three groups where the Republican brand is terrible and those are the three largest growing groups of voters.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So we have to be able to take a message to folks like that,&#8221; Hurd concluded. &#8220;And helping to change the face of the party so that we can do that is important for us.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Texas is a purple state. Just because we don&#39;t have a statewide elected Democrat doesn&#39;t mean it&#39;s not in play in 2020,” says Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX). &quot;If the Republican party doesn’t start looking like America&#8230;there won&#39;t be a Republican Party in America,&quot; adds @HurdontheHill. <a href="https://t.co/nI3ojuRCt7">pic.twitter.com/nI3ojuRCt7</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (@FiringLineShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/FiringLineShow/status/1198000603911340032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2019</a></p></blockquote>

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