After coming tantalizingly close to flipping several red-leaning seats in 2018, Democratic candidates are gearing up in and around Texas' five largest cities
Staggeringly high Democratic turnout in the Texas suburbs last week has the party bullish about capturing a half-dozen seats that slipped through its grasp in the 2018 midterms.
Democrats are best positioned to flip a sprawling West Texas seat from which Rep. Will Hurd , a powerhouse fundraiser and nimble campaigner, is retiring. The next most promising targets are two open seats outside of Houston and Dallas, and Republican Rep. Michael McCaul’s district, which stretches east from Austin to Greater Houston.Democrats hope strong recruiting will put three additional seats in play. In Houston, attorney Sima Ladjevardian is aiming to oust GOP Rep.
Ladjevardian, a former adviser to O’Rourke, said in a late February interview in Houston. O’Rourke’s Senate campaign, she said, offered a path to flipping longtime Republican strongholds. The practice had “a big coattail impact" in 2018, said state GOP chairman James Dickey, who has instituted a voter registration effort that he said has added 50,000 new GOP voters to the rolls.
For Texas Democrats, a key part of their 2020 success will also depend on bringing out new voters. And some recruits say they are particularly invested in that talk.
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