Michael Karlis
Texas Nationalist Motion President Daniel Miller delivers a petition to Gov. Greg Abbott’s workplace calling for the state to secede from the union.
AUSTIN — Members of the Texas Nationalist Motion (TNM) marched into Gov. Greg Abbott’s workplace Tuesday to demand the governor name a particular legislative session to debate the potential for the Lone Star State seceding from the US.
Tuesday’s go to to Abbott’s workplace comes roughly two months after TNM hand-delivered a petition with almost 140,000 verified signatures to the Texas GOP’s headquarters requesting a non-binding “TEXIT” query be positioned on the state’s Republican main ballots in March.
Nonetheless, the Texas GOP denied that petition, arguing that the signatures have been submitted late and that solely handwritten signatures may very well be accepted. The TNM’s signatures have been digital.
“We’re right here as a result of the Republican Celebration of Texas ignored the voices of folks that signed the petition,” TNM President Daniel Miller informed roughly 70 supporters gathered on the Texas State Capitol earlier than delivering the signatures to Abbott’s workplace.
“Immediately, we convey those self same names, those self same petition signatures, plus all of the Democrats who signed the petition who needed a vote as nicely, to point out past a shadow of a doubt that this is a matter that transcends partisan divide and is, actually, a difficulty of the folks of Texas versus an entrenched political institution.”
Regardless of Miller’s enthusiasm, most political observers do not share his perception that TEXIT enjoys widespread assist.
In December, Southern Methodist College political scientist Cal Jillson informed the Present he was unsurprised by the Texas GOP’s determination to exclude the query from the poll.
“The Republican Celebration of Texas does not need to supply the chance for its main voters to precise silliness,” Jillson defined.
Certainly, a current examine carried out by UK-based Redfield and Wiltson Methods and Newsweek discovered that 67% of probably Texan voters, if given the selection, would vote to stay a part of the US.
Simply the identical, Miller informed the Present the Redfield-Newsweek ballot is inaccurate and does not mirror the quantity of assist the TNM has gathered lately.
“On the finish of the day, you are going to see polls like that,” he stated. “When you take a look at the place assist is for this difficulty proper now, on this lifecycle of an independence motion, we’re outperforming Brexit, we’re outperforming Scottish independence and we’re outperforming Catalan — and we’re outperforming everybody at each stage of the method.”
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