817 Podcast - Fort Worth's Monday Morning Show
Nov 2, 2026 · 50 min · 10 segments
We spoke with Chris Tackett of See It Name It Fight It to go over the early voting numbers in Tarrant County's midterm election. data.seeitnameitfightit.com…
Chris TackettGuest
EJ CarrionHost
Wesley KirkHost
Well, let's actually look at some of the key races, right? One of your sub stacks was basically just going over the end of early voting.
Tarrant County at its whole, because not every race is the entire county, but Elisa Simmons is up plus three D.
If everyone's voting down the ballot, right? So when we talk about that D plus 2.6, and again, it's just the partisan spans there, that would be Elisa Simmons, that would be Tiffany Birx, that would be Nathan Smith, that would be Lydia Bean, right? Anybody who's running- Countywide, the judges would all be potentially in that space.
So that would be the potential advantage they're all sitting at, and then the neithers would break from there.
But yeah, that's where all of our countywides, from a base standpoint, that's where they're starting from.
Which, again, it's a very different place than 2022 when they were all down five points coming into Election Day.
like when we start looking at the sections, Commissioner Precinct 2, Jared Williams versus Tony Tenderholt, which is Elisa Simmons' old position, which they racial gerrymandered to be more red.
still is showing a plus two d which is funny in 2022 we went in all this racial gerrymander to stop this from happening that was an r plus six
yes well that was the thing that we brought up then is that they they were gerrymandering it but with such slim margins that all it would take to undo that is just more voter turnout which is what we're seeing so all of that racist gerrymandering Not only was it for nothing, but it was the cause of more voter turnout.
Yeah, you got the Arlington in that precinct a lot, and they're really pissed off of their voter polls being shut down at the college campus at some key points.
Well, let's actually look at some of the key races, right? One of your sub stacks was basically just going over the end of early voting.
Tarrant County at its whole, because not every race is the entire county, but Elisa Simmons is up plus three D.
If everyone's voting down the ballot, right? So when we talk about that D plus 2.6, and again, it's just the partisan spans there, that would be Elisa Simmons, that would be Tiffany Birx, that would be Nathan Smith, that would be Lydia Bean, right? Anybody who's running- Countywide, the judges would all be potentially in that space.
So that would be the potential advantage they're all sitting at, and then the neithers would break from there.
But yeah, that's where all of our countywides, from a base standpoint, that's where they're starting from.
Which, again, it's a very different place than 2022 when they were all down five points coming into Election Day.
like when we start looking at the sections, Commissioner Precinct 2, Jared Williams versus Tony Tenderholt, which is Elisa Simmons' old position, which they racial gerrymandered to be more red.
still is showing a plus two d which is funny in 2022 we went in all this racial gerrymander to stop this from happening that was an r plus six
yes well that was the thing that we brought up then is that they they were gerrymandering it but with such slim margins that all it would take to undo that is just more voter turnout which is what we're seeing so all of that racist gerrymandering Not only was it for nothing, but it was the cause of more voter turnout.
Yeah, you got the Arlington in that precinct a lot, and they're really pissed off of their voter polls being shut down at the college campus at some key points.
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