'Many Democrats in Texas have deep concerns that not only would Sen. Bernie Sanders lose to President Trump, but also that he could doom down ballot candidates in the Texas House and in the US Congress,' writes Scott Braddock for CNNOpinion.
Scott Braddock is the editor of The Quorum Report, an independent political publication in Austin. Follow him on Twitter: @scottbraddock. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
With time running short before Super Tuesday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and the other Democratic presidential hopefuls have been barnstorming Texas. Just as a new CNN poll shows Sanders leading former Vice President Joe Biden by 9 percentage points, many Democrats here have deep concerns that not only would the Senator lose to President Donald Trump, but he could also doom down ballot candidates in the Texas House and in the US Congress.
Scott Braddock And their concerns may be legitimate. For Democrats to win in Texas -- up and down the ballot -- young and old voters of all races and ethnicities would have to come together. And, right now, Sanders has not shown how he would assemble such a coalition. But it's even more complex in Texas. Politics is often about backlash.
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