Judge Lina Hidalgo could be the most powerful Democrat you’ve never heard of.
Lina Hidalgo had just touched down in Vancouver when she got the call from one of her staffers; the National Weather Service had issued a warning about a “large, extremely dangerous and potentially deadly” tornado heading toward Houston. The damage was expected to be severe.
Bipartisan cooperation has become the stuff of legend in Washington, DC, but it’s par for the course for Hidalgo, who, at 32, has been serving as Harris County judge—one of the most important elected roles in Texas politics—since January 2019. She could be the most powerful Democrat you’ve never heard of: a young, recently reelected leader overseeing a multibillion-dollar county budget in the country’s second-most populous state.
“When [Hidalgo] was elected, people kept saying, ‘Maybe she’ll run for governor,’ and I kept saying, ‘Harris County has 4.6 million people in it, and if it were a state, it would be the 25th largest in the country. She alreadycofounder Evan Smith.
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