Texas in play [View all]
By Mark Z. Barabak and Kevin Baxter
Los Angeles Times (TNS) 8 hrs ago
... it is not far-fetched to think Joe Biden could carry the Lone Star State ...
... Democrats have not won a statewide race in more than 20 years, and their last presidential candidate to carry Texas was Jimmy Carter ...
"It's not become probable," Jim Henson, who co-directs the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls, said of Biden's chances. "But it's gone into the realm of the plausible" ...
"We know the risk of losing democracy," said Paloma Diaz, 56, a director of Latino American studies at the University of Texas in Austin. She grew up in Chile under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and sees the same impulses in Trump. "We are going straight to a totalitarian government," she said ...
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