Big losses in rural Texas seen by some as a sign to focus more on urban liberal strongholds, where they lost ground as voters stayed home.
, some Democrats are taking their rebuke from rural Texas as a clear sign to narrow their focus on urban liberal strongholds, where they also lost ground this year as millions of registered voters stayed home. Others are taking the drubbing as a lesson to diversify the statewide ticket next year, arguing their only path to victory is with Black and Latino candidates who may inspire voters who look like them to turn out in higher numbers.
Still, O’Rourke in particular poured millions of dollars into advertising and other campaign operations in Houston, Dallas, and other large cities where many Black and Latino voters live. He also was banking on higher-than-usual turnout among young and infrequent voters, along with women motivated by the abrupt end of federal protections for abortion rights, though none of those coalitions materialized on the scale Democrats needed.
This year, Democrats fielded a ticket of mostly white candidates, prompting some internal concerns that they would struggle to motivate Texas’ growing numbers of Black and Latino voters to the polls. With both parties this year targeting Latino voters, particularly in a trio of congressional races in South Texas, Democrats had hoped attorney general nominee Rochelle Garza, a Latina former ACLU attorney who grew up in Brownsville, could break through against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Campos said O’Rourke was also weighed down by positions he took during his 2020 presidential run — and there was little Democrats could do to overcome it. That same year, Democrats targeted dozens of battleground races for Congress and the Legislature, further driving donor interest and voter turnout. But last year, Republican lawmakers redrew Texas’ political maps to shore up their incumbents, eliminating most competitive races.
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