You think they locked up their teabaggers? We still have free range Louie Gohmerts and Ted Cruzes running wild all over the place. If Wendy doesn't win, it won't be because the people of Texas don't support her. It will be because of gerrymandering and voter suppression. I challenge you to look at congressional maps around Austin and Houston, and find such one sided district lines in any state at any time. I mentioned those two towns only because they are well known, but the extreme gerrymandering is across the state.
I don't think Gerrymandering will have anything to do with Davis' loss.
Davis will lose because she ran an awful campaign and she was a terrible candidate. This is the problem with leaping on celebrity. There were probably a bunch of more qualified Democrats with more skills who could have given Abbot a run for his money. They certainly wouldn't have had the common fucking sense to NOT try to make the man's wheelchair an issue.
But a bunch of outside the state groups said, "Wow, she delayed a bunch of bad abortion laws for a week by talking for a bunch of hours, let's nominate her!!!"
And she wasn't even particularly articulate in explaining the pro-choice position.