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Christopher Hooks, a journalist who writes about politics for Texas Monthly and The Texas Observer, explains why Republican members of the United States House of Representatives from the Lone Star State are retiring en masse, and what’s going wrong for the Republican Party in one of the country’s biggest states, which is a must-win for Donald Trump in 2020.

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Kenny Marchant becomes fourth Texas congressman to retire as GOP exodus grows

Eight-term Rep. Kenny Marchant, who narrowly won reelection last November, is now the fourth Texas Republican congressman to pick retirement over...

Yet another Republican member of the US House who barely survived the blue wave midterms of 2018 has chosen not to seek re-election in 2020.

Kenny Marchant (R-TX-24) has decided to spend more time with the grandkids rather than risk defeat next year.

Rep. Marchant is the fourth GOP House member from Texas to throw in the towel. Democrats are calling the Texas Republican retirements the Texodus.

Texas is now transitioning from red to purple. It is where Virginia was about 20 to 25 years ago. Once a reliable red state, Virginia went for Obama in 2008 and 2012 and went for Hillary in 2016. Virginia used to be so red that it was the only southern state that southerner Jimmy Carter didn’t take in 1976.

The writing is on the wall for Republicans in the Lone Star State. Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke almost beat incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018.

A Republican presidential candidate almost certainly can’t win without the electoral votes of Texas. In 2020 we’ll see the GOP diverting lots of its resources to a state they previously took for granted.

Texas going Democratic could eventually mean the end of the Republicans as a viable national party.