re: The major goal of the Dem party is take over States

I'm as conservative as you can be, but I know that the GOPe political types have been in power mostly for the past couple of decades and have put Texas to be blue in less than a decade. They have caved over and over thinking they can turn brown people into good Republicans. They failed and the deal is done.
Texas will be blue and there will be more and much more dangerous types to come down the pike than Beto.