Which of the following situations best exemplifies an exception to party leaders' inabilities to discipline party members who pursue goals that conflict with their party's stated objectives?
A. Democratic governor Allan Shivers' successful attempt in convincing conservative Texas Democrats to support Republican nominee Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections
B. Liberal Democratic voters supporting Republican John Tower in his successful 1961 special election for United States senator
C. Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Michael McCormick switching from the Democratic to the Republican Party in 1997
D. Texas House Speaker Joe Straus's censure by a two-thirds majority of the State Republican Committee in 2018 for blocking measures such as the regulated public bathrooms and how transgendered people could legally use these facilities
Answer: D
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