The stage is set for the final debate of Democratic presidential candidates this year. Seven candidates are expected square off in the race to see who will face Donald Trump next year. But there’s a wrinkle. As of Tuesday morning, the Thursday debate wasn’t a sure...
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New poll shows Trump’s Texas-sized trouble growing
A new poll commissioned by the Democratic Policy Institute brings fresh data that shows President Donald Trump is in deep water in the Lone Star State. The survey found Trump’s favorability in the once reliably Republican state is equal to his unfavorability, at 49%...
The Curious Case of the Billionaire Mayor
With the first votes in the 2020 Democratic Primary mere months away, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has made his clearest signal yet that he’s prepared to jump into the race for the Democratic nomination, as he has started buying television ad time across...
Harris County Republicans not showing up for work has consequences
We get it. We’re alive in a time when citizens have regrettably been trained to expect less and less from their elected officials. But even if we’re grading on the Trump curve, we all must agree that the bare minimum anyone being paid over $100,000 a year as an...
Texas Republicans are getting worried
At a morning panel today at the Texas Tribune Festival, a group of veteran GOP operatives were tasked with making sense out of the blue wave that swept Texas in 2018, and what they need to do to avoid a repeat. Much of the discussion, moderated by the Tribune’s...
Democrats announce qualifications for November debate
Yesterday, the Democratic National Committee announced its qualification threshold for the November presidential debates in what will almost certainly lead to a shrinking number of candidates on the debate stage. As with prior debates, there is both a polling...
The Battle for the Texas House begins in November
Texas Democrats still basking in the glow of the Presidential debate in Houston last week have begun to channel their enthusiasm into the first step toward Democrats retaking the majority in the State House in 2020: a special election in rapidly changing Fort Bend...
At Houston debate, electability is on center stage
As 10 Democratic candidates prepare to descend on the debate stage in Houston on Thursday, all eyes will be on the center of the stage, where former Vice President Joe Biden will be flanked by Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. At long last, the seemingly...
Cornyn’s digital ad spending is ramping up
While some in conservative circles have clung to the narrative that Texas is still a reliably Republican state, the same can’t be said of longtime Texas Senator John Cornyn. The former Attorney General and onetime judge in the Lone Star State has seen the seas of...
Why Texas, and our entire country, needs Beto O’Rourke to keep running for President
This morning, as Beto O’Rourke stood in front of the gorgeous and sprawling backdrop of an El Paso skyline, he sought to reframe and reset his presidential campaign in absolute terms. Less than two weeks after a gunman drove 10 hours to open fire at a Walmart in the...