I don't think its a question of young voters - it may be a question of all voters if current trends continue. Think about it: since 1992, there have been the following elections:

• 4 Outright wins by Democrats (Popular Vote & Electoral College): 92, 96, 08, 12
• 1 Outright win by Republicans: 2004
• 2 Republican electoral college wins where they lost the popular vote: 2000, 2016

If I'm the Republicans, I'd be worried about long term trends - especially as they look to squeeze ever more votes out of a shrinking share of the population. The electoral college can only come through for them up to a point, and even then it isn't always on their side - Obama had electoral college advantages over both Mcain and Romney. They're likely to keep the advantage in 2020, but if Texas stays blue/purple, suddenly that's 38 electoral college votes that they couldn't count on previously - or in other words... Ohio and Pennsylvania!

This thread completely overlooks that Hispanics are not an ethnically monolithic group. Mexican-Americans, Puerto-ricans, Cuban-Americans etc. are ethnically, culturally, and politically very different.
Cuban-Americans tend to largely vote republicans, although this is changing among the younger generations. PR tend to be more democrat, albeit pretty moderate for the most part, and even in this group, it's not very homogenenous (https://scholars.org/...voting-united-states)
And Mexican-Americans tend to be largely democrat, with a couple of issues they are conservative on. So, there is a chance Texas could flip if (and that's a big if) they all vote.

Texas Republicans are getting worried. Here is a proposed GOP party platform in Texas, an electoral college for state wide races.

What do you want to bet that the distribution and weighting of those senate districts just happens to benefit one party over the other?

....You mean like quit sticking up for the Bigot-in-Chief calling them all murderers and rapists?

Just a thought, but it might be more to your posting history than just that.

I think they've already shown that they're pretty happy to keep cheating (voter suppression, gerrymandering etc...) if it means that can position them to keep winning... So my suspicion is that, if Texas does turn blue at some point in the next 20 years, simply eliminating all the unjust impediments that Republicans have put up to prevent people from voting will ensure that Texas will remain blue for a long time.

Very true.

Houston turned blue in 2018. A blue wave.

Since, they have turned back Repub suppression. They have reformed bail bonds so the poor aren't incarcerated because they can't pay bail. They changed the Jim Crow era practice of having the tax assessor control voting. They liked to have fewer voting places in democratic areas. They cancelled the contract with DPS to enforce traffic fines by not allowing you to renew your driver's license which is a primary proof of ID used to vote.

https://www.cnbc.com/...onavirus-deaths.html

Texas orders extra body bags, mortuary trucks as it braces for more coronavirus deaths
PUBLISHED FRI, JUL 17 2020

Texas officials and funeral home directors are ordering extra body bags and refrigerated trucks as they prepare for an increase in deaths from Covid-19, which has already killed 3,657 in the state.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is sending 14 refrigerated trucks to the state next week — on top of the eight already sent — to serve as temporary mortuaries, while some funeral homes are reserving their own trucks from private companies.

“The directors I’ve talked to in the last week are at capacity or over capacity, thus the reason they had to bring in the trailers,” said Gene Allen, president of the Texas Funeral Directors Association.
Travis County, where Austin is located, is in the process of procuring three extra mortuary trucks “out of an abundance of caution,” public information officer Hector Nieto said in an interview.



On the same day ...
https://www.click2houston.com/...navirus-cases-surge/
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says “there is no shutdown coming” as coronavirus cases surge

Exactly this. I am a mid 30's activist democrat (lots of volunteering and donating) who was a delegate for one of the major candidate before the "Biden Blowout" took place in the primary.

I say activist, but I am an establishment democrat. The left wing of the party scares me almost as much as the right wing right now. If we hit the trifecta and start pushing through the agenda of the far left -- I will not only be surprised, I will be devastated. Biden was my second choice and honestly the politician I most agree with on policy. If the policies of the black & red start to rear their head -- I'm out. All that republicans would need to do is find a moderate like Romney -- or just run Romney.