Elections

Texas Dems Have Convinced Themselves This Is Their Year (for Real This Time)

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“A Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t won here since Jimmy Carter in 1976, [but] there’s definitely a different type of energy this cycle,” said one Democratic Party chair.

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“Demography is destiny.”

It’s a mantra that Texas Democrats have been invoking since 1994, the last year that the Lone Star State ever elected a Democrat to statewide office.

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