As Democrats seek to take over the Texas House, do they stay to the left or move to the middle?

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN — Michelle Beckley isn’t hiding from anything.

Not her call for a special session on gun violence. Not her advocacy for LGBT Texans. And not her push, before arriving at the Texas House, to stop the Carrollton Police Department from cooperating with federal immigration authorities to turn over immigrants in their custody.

“I’m not scared of my record at all,” said the blue-haired, 49-year-old freshman Democrat who stunned political observers by flipping a traditionally Republican district in 2018. “The reality is the tide’s changing, it’s flipping. Everything’s been trending Democrat.”

With crucial elections next year, will Beckley’s unabashed political stance help or hurt Democrats who are hoping to take the Texas House for the first time since 2003?

Beckley is one of 12 Democrats who won traditionally Republican districts last year, in an election which combined an unexpected enthusiasm for Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke and a political backlash against President Donald Trump to put Democrats just nine seats away from taking the lower chamber of the Legislature.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/11/02/as-democrats-seek-texas-house-majority-do-they-stay-to-the-left-or-move-to-the-middle/

[wasupaloopa]

1. Why does it always have to be left or middle? Dems come in all shapes and sizes.

Present your ideas and see who supports them. Dividing us lets the Repubs win.

[SpankMe]

2. Texas is so conservative, the middle IS the left.

My opinion: don't swing hard left. You'll lose the very next election. Stay cool and mitigate some of the cray first. Then, go for some more forceful changes later.

[LakeArenal]

3. Ummm don't voters decide that? Not DU

[HelpImSurrounded]

4. +1zillion