The current state of the 13 flippable 2020 Senate seats

[TexasTowelie]

7. I didn't vote for Hegar in the Senate race because I don't like her position on gun control

and her personality rubs me the wrong way. It appears that Cuellar has forged an amicable working relationship with Rep. Carter from central Texas which is why he supported him in the 2018 election. I don't know what the status of Cuellar/Hegar relationship so I'll wait to see what happens if Hegar wins the runoff in a couple of months. I ended up voting for Amanda Edwards for Senate because Royce West (the candidate that Hegar is facing in the runoff) has business connections with a Republican. I don't know who I will vote for in the runoff because Hegar's experience is solely as an advocate while Royce West has been a state senator since 1993.

While people from around the country contributed to Cisneros' campaign against Cuellar, the people that get to decide who is their representative are the voters in that district. Your ideological view of Cuellar doesn't matter unless you decide to move to 28th congressional district in Texas and you register to vote. The voters in that district see Cuellar as someone who can broker deals with Republicans rather than as an ideologue. To those voters having a Congressman that can bring jobs into the district is more important to them than his position on party platform planks. At this point I believe that we should respect the will of the voters rather than bash the Democratic candidate in the 2020 election (which is what you are doing since there is no runoff election in that district). Why should your opinion (or anyone else's opinion) mean more than the people who elected him?