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TexasTowelie

(112,102 posts)
Sun Jun 7, 2020, 06:06 AM Jun 2020

Texas Democrats Counting On Nonwhite Vote To Flip Seats In 2020

All this week, Texas Democrats have been holding their state convention online because of COVID-19. Party leaders are convinced that changing demographics and dissatisfaction with President Trump will help them carry the state in November.

Conventions are typically a way for a party to make a show of strength, bringing tens of thousands of followers together under one roof.

But how do you measure that strength when the convention is virtual?

“[Monday,] we blew all of our online fundraising efforts, records out of the water, for the first day of our convention,” said Luke Warford, the Texas Democratic Party’s voter expansion director.

Warford said all those resources will help with what he calls the largest voter registration effort in the state party’s history.

Read more: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/in-depth/2020/06/05/375173/will-2020-be-the-year-texas-democrats-flip-the-state/

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Texas Democrats Counting On Nonwhite Vote To Flip Seats In 2020 (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2020 OP
for 20yrs+, the national democrats have put little money into Texas amd the Texas democratic party beachbumbob Jun 2020 #1
 

beachbumbob

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1. for 20yrs+, the national democrats have put little money into Texas amd the Texas democratic party
Sun Jun 7, 2020, 08:07 AM
Jun 2020

faded fast. We have seen the turn around and will only see more gains as people realize their VOTE MATTERS

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