A few hours after polls closed the night of the 2018 midterm, Democrat Beto O’Rourke...
Texas governor candidate Beto O'Rourke cheers with volunteers and supporters as he gathers with them at the 2022 Texas Democratic Convention, Friday, July 15, 2022, in Dallas.A few hours after polls closed the night of the 2018 midterm, Democrat Beto O’Rourke was clobbering U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas’ largest counties, seemingly within reach of an upset win.
“The Republican branding has been incredibly effective, that Democrats want to take your guns, that Democrats are not people of faith,” said David Currie, chair of the Texas Democratic Party’s Non-Urban/Rural Caucus. “I like to talk about four things: education, health care, jobs, and Jesus. The Democratic Party gets labeled as a secular party, and I just don't think that's true.
At a meeting of the Non-Urban/Rural Caucus Friday, Hinojosa acknowledged the state party hasn’t provided enough support to local chairs and party activists outside the cities and suburbs, though he attributed part of the failure last election to the COVID-19 pandemic.Because of the pandemic, he added, “we didn't do what we needed to do to help build [in rural Texas].
“People weren't getting out. And a famously terrible strategic decision, to not get out and talk to people, it put the world back online — where the misinformation was worse, and where you can't have a dialogue,” Hays said, adding that she’s more bullish now that Democrats have returned to pre-COVID campaign tactics.
But even with a more aggressive effort, cutting into the GOP’s rural dominance poses a challenge to Democrats, who will have to overcome President Joe Biden’s woeful approval among rural voters — and the deeply entrenched antipathy toward Democrats in those areas, built over years of political neglect.
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