{"id":7754,"date":"2025-02-21T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/reeling-texas-democrats-get-a-rare-sight-their-national-chair\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T13:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:48:46","slug":"reeling-texas-democrats-get-a-rare-sight-their-national-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/reeling-texas-democrats-get-a-rare-sight-their-national-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeling Texas Democrats Get a Rare Sight: Their National Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Defeats across the once solidly blue Rio Grande Valley. Shrinking margins in big Democratic cities like Houston and Dallas. Lost seats in the State House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The drubbing that Texas Democrats took in the 2024 election was bad enough to leave any party stalwart feeling deflated. After all, a yearslong belief that demographic shifts, population growth and rapid urbanization had Democrats on the cusp of flipping the nation\u2019s most populous Republican state was seemingly in tatters after November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet the newly elected chair of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin, made Texas one of the first stops this week on his first swing through the country. And the message he carried was the opposite: Texas, the second-largest state, could still be a linchpin for the national party\u2019s revival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe future of the Democratic Party runs through Texas,\u201d Mr. Martin said in an interview in Houston, pointing to national shifts in population away from Democratic coastal strongholds and toward the South. \u201cWe are here right now to start laying down the foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Martin spoke on Wednesday between meetings with local Democratic activists \u2014 hearing about the need for year-round investments in campaign infrastructure \u2014 in the same Houston hotel where Senator Ted Cruz <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/05\/us\/politics\/texas-senate-cruz-allred.html\" title=\"\">celebrated his re-election victory<\/a> over a well-funded, well-regarded Democratic challenger, Colin Allred, just a few months earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Texas remains a tall hill for Democrats to climb, so Mr. Martin\u2019s pitch this week says as much about the party\u2019s struggles nationally as it does about its hopes for flipping the state. With once solidly Democratic states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania now competitive, and population continuing to shift toward the Sun Belt, Democrats need to cultivate new ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For now, that ground does not seem particularly fertile in Texas. Republicans control all branches of state government, a Democrat has not been elected to statewide office since 1994, and the party has shown few signs of being able to organize effectively across a vast and expensive state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Demographics were once seen as political destiny in Texas, where a plurality of residents now are Hispanic. The state has five of the nation\u2019s 15 largest cities \u2014 Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and Fort Worth \u2014 and its population has been growing more diverse. Those trends, Democrats believed, would eventually shift Texas from red to blue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But it hasn\u2019t worked out that way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Instead, Hispanic voters in traditional Democratic strongholds have shifted rightward, and in the last election, many Democratic voters in cities simply stayed home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Vice President Kamala Harris received more than 400,000 fewer votes in Texas in 2024 than Joseph R. Biden Jr. did in 2020, even though the state\u2019s population grew by about two million in those four years. President Trump\u2019s vote total in Texas grew by 500,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCycle after cycle,\u201d Democrats are \u201csold this dream that it will flip,\u201d said Delilah Agho-Otoghile, the executive director of Texas Future Project, which works with progressive donors on strategies for investing in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe way we lost in November provides an inflection point that didn\u2019t exist before,\u201d she said, adding that Democrats need hard work and campaign investments, not any natural trend in the voter base, to change their fortunes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite the rough defeat in 2024, demographics \u2014 specifically the shifting patterns of where Americans live \u2014 continue to fuel the Democrats\u2019 dogged interest in Texas, which <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/analysis-opinion\/big-changes-ahead-voting-maps-after-next-census\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">could gain four or more House seats<\/a> after the 2030 census. Mr. Martin and others have argued that Democrats need to become much more competitive in Texas, as well as in places like Georgia, North Carolina and even Missouri, where Mr. Martin also traveled this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe have to be present,\u201d he said of his party. \u201cWe have to give people a sense that we actually give a damn about their lives, and not just about their vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Texas Democrats are still debating exactly what went wrong in the last election, and what needs to be done in response. Early efforts have not gone smoothly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the immediate aftermath of the November loss, the head of the state party, Gilberto Hinojosa, suggested that Democrats should take more moderate positions on social issues, particularly when it came to transgender rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He faced immediate pushback, and then apologized. Soon after, he said he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tpr.org\/government-politics\/2024-11-08\/chairman-of-the-texas-democrats-resigns-after-election-losses-controversial-comments\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">would not run for re-election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the race to replace him as party leader, candidates have offered an array of approaches but a common theme: the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/04\/us\/politics\/democrats-working-class.html\" title=\"\">Democratic Party has lost touch with its working-class base<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe forgot about people who are marginalized, who are the underdogs,\u201d said Steve Miller, a pastor from the East Texas town of Henderson who is seeking the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Democratic activists conceded that the party had done a poor job organizing in 2024, especially among Hispanic voters. As a result, the Democrats <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/11\/us\/hispanics-election-republicans-texas.html\" title=\"\">lost many once-solidly blue counties in South Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe have to be honest about the fact that we didn\u2019t do any work in South Texas,\u201d said another candidate, Lillie Schechter, a former chair of the Democratic Party in Harris County, which includes Houston. \u201cThe Republicans have a year-round office down there, and we have nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As an indication of the gap, the Texas Democratic Party has filled just under 3,000 positions for precinct chair \u2014 a kind of elected local party organizer. Republicans have filled more than 4,200 such positions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tania Gonzalez-Ingram, a Democratic organizer who managed the re-election campaign in South Texas of Representative Vicente Gonzalez, who won narrowly in November, said that part of the party\u2019s problem stemmed from Democrats nationally sticking to messages about abortion and immigration, in the belief that those issues would resonate with Hispanic voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m not the queen of all Latinos, but socially, we are not progressive,\u201d Ms. Gonzalez-Ingram said. \u201cWe are seeing Latinos moving toward the Republican Party because they are the ones having the conversations about money,\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Beto O\u2019Rourke, a former El Paso congressman whose boisterous, hopeful Senate campaign in 2018 nearly unseated Mr. Cruz, considered entering the race to lead the Texas Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But after several weeks spent talking to elected officials, candidates and party members, he said in an interview, \u201cit wasn\u2019t clear that we were aligned.\u201d So he decided against running.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cFrom my perspective, this is not rocket science, it is common sense, and Democrats have lost their common sense,\u201d said Mr. O\u2019Rourke, seated in the living room of his El Paso home. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to listen to people. Their concerns have to be yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite Democrats\u2019 defeats, including his own, Mr. O\u2019Rourke echoed the message of the Democratic Party chairman, Mr. Martin, that Texas was more \u201cessential\u201d than ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI really don\u2019t see a path to the White House for a Democrat, 2032 and beyond, without Texas,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have no choice but to figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For years, it appeared that Democrats were making gains in the state. The party was closing the gap in presidential elections, and in 2018, during a wave of opposition to Republicans during President Trump\u2019s first term, Mr. O\u2019Rourke\u2019s race to unseat Mr. Cruz fell short by fewer than three percentage points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Along the way, the Democratic Party was cutting into the Republican advantage in the Texas legislature. A wave of energetic new Democratic state representatives won office in 2018. And then President Biden came within 6 points of winning the state in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Change in Texas seemed close at hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But it was not: Mr. O\u2019Rourke ran for governor in 2022 and was defeated. Democrats lost seats in the State House last year. Ms. Harris lost Texas to Mr. Trump by more than 13 percentage points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/us\/democrats-texas.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defeats across the once solidly blue Rio Grande Valley. Shrinking margins in big Democratic cities like Houston and Dallas. 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