TX-25: Battle between Rep. Roger Williams, Julie Oliver spotlights Texas' evolving political
WASHINGTON – When Julie Oliver launched a longshot campaign to unseat Republican Rep. Roger Williams in 2018 in a conservative stronghold that stretches out from the Fort Worth suburbs, the Democrat said she “wasn’t thinking at the time, ‘Am I going to win?’”
Instead, she recalled, her mentality was more along the lines of “Gosh, I hope I can win.”
But after coming within nine points of Williams in that election – and then subsequently raising hundreds of thousands of dollars more this cycle than she collected for her bid two years ago – the former health care executive said “something has shifted.”
I know I can win,” she said.
It remains to be seen if her confidence is warranted in a mostly Central Texas district that President Donald Trump won by 15 points in the 2016 election, particularly since Williams has stressed that he’s taking “nothing for granted” and is running his campaign accordingly.
“I feel good about our chances,” said the four-term congressman, who’s also scaled up his operation from two years ago.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/10/23/congressional-battle-between-rep-roger-williams-julie-oliver-spotlights-texas-evolving-political-map/
