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State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: Elderberry on July 14, 2019, 12:18:42 pm
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Houston Chronicle by Jeremy Wallace July 12, 2019
Three times as many Democrats have already filed to run for Congress in Texas this year as in 2012 or 2016, yet another sign that Texas will be more of a battleground for the two major political parties in 2020.
With the elections still well over a year away, Democrats already have 66 candidates who have signed up to run in 30 different congressional districts. At this same point four years ago, Democrats had just 19 candidates ready to run in 16 of the state’s 36 congressional districts.
“There’s a lot of enthusiasm statewide,†said Abhi Rahman, director of communications for the Texas Democratic Party.
More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Surge-of-Democratic-candidates-file-to-run-for-14089875.php (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Surge-of-Democratic-candidates-file-to-run-for-14089875.php)
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So is the fact there are at least 24 Democrats running for President mean that the Democrats are more likely to win the Presidency?
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Nah. It just means they are totally fragmented with no base and no standard bearer.