{"id":439180,"date":"2026-09-17T20:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439180\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:36:07","slug":"why-karl-rove-a-father-of-the-modern-texas-gop-is-voting-for-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439180\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Karl Rove, a father of the modern Texas GOP, is voting for a Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QVXAAHXA7RBBZLPWUR7GXRVAAI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Legendary Republican operative Karl Rove has said that he plans to do something in November that, for him, is radical: For the first time since 1994, he will vote for a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LGJETWM6OZCGRH76JYQOY5I2LE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">His reason, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/why-im-voting-for-a-texas-democrat-4c835d2d?mod=author_content_page_1_pos_1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/why-im-voting-for-a-texas-democrat-4c835d2d?mod=author_content_page_1_pos_1\">as Rove explained<\/a> in his Wall Street Journal column Wednesday, is the unsubtle racism and nativism regularly expressed by Bo French, the GOP\u2019s nominee for a seat on the powerful Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary Republican operative Karl Rove has said that he plans to do something in November that, for him,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-439180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}