With his presidential hopes dashed, Beto O'Rourke has joined the Democrats' fight to take control of the Texas state House.
, including Florida, North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia. Texas, which has 36 U.S. House seats and the potential to gain as many as three more because of its rapid population growth over the past decade, is viewed as the most important, said Ben Wexler-Waite, communications director of Forward Majority, a Democratic organization that is targeting several Republican-led state legislatures in 2020.
The first test of the Democrats' latest effort comes in the Jan. 28 special election in Fort Bend County, west of Houston. Markowitz, an educator and textbook author, is running against Republican Gary Gates, a real estate investor, to replace state Rep. John Zerwas, a Republican, inEliz Markowitz thanks volunteers, including Beto O'Rourke, at left, who canvassed on her behalf on Jan. 11.
And in an email to local Republicans last fall, a Fort Bend County party official described the special election as"," seeming to acknowledge the changing political winds in the community west of Houston. Once a Republican bastion — the home district of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — Fort Bend is regarded as one of the fastest-growing and most rapidly diversifying counties in the country.
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