Three former presidential candidates are slated to attend the 2020 Texas Democratic Convention as guest speakers. Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Obama-era housing chief Julián Castro will speak at the week-long virtual convention on...
2020 Elections
back to archiveNancy Pelosi to attend Texas Democratic Convention
Texas Democrats announced Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be attending the state party’s virtual convention next month as a special guest. The week-long convention is scheduled to begin June 1 and will see the selection of delegates to attend the...
Trump, Pence float moving Republican National Convention to Texas
In a series of tweets Monday morning, President Trump threatened to move the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina. Trump attacked North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, for continuing some social distancing measures as the state enters its phased...
Can a progressive beat the most conservative Democrat in the Texas Senate?
On March 3, 2020, in the shadow of a contentious presidential primary election, incumbent legislators and scores of primary challengers ran to serve in one of the 181 seats of the Texas Legislature. Sara Stapleton-Barrera, a candidate for Texas Senate District 27,...
Beto joins Biden’s virtual campaign trail
Beto O’Rourke will be joining former Vice President Joe Biden on the campaign trail Wednesday evening. The former El Paso Congressman will be headlining a virtual "Turn Texas Blue" event with the presumptive nominee. The event begins at 5:15 p.m. and will focus on...
TDP hosts virtual Democratic Senate debate ahead of July runoff
Texas Democrats announced today that they will be hosting a virtual Senate primary debate featuring candidates MJ Hegar and Royce West. This is the only debate scheduled, thus far, ahead of the July 14 runoff election. In a Dallas Morning News/UT-Tyler poll from...
What Biden, Sanders and other presidential campaigns learned in Texas
It’s hard to believe that only two months have passed since Super Tuesday, the day more than a dozen states, including Texas, held primary elections to deliver a delegate lead to former Vice President Joe Biden that proved insurmountable to competitors. Today,...
Poll shows Biden with slight edge over Trump in Texas
A new poll released Wednesday by Public Policy Polling shows former Vice President Joe Biden with a one point lead over President Donald Trump in Texas. The poll shows Biden’s support among Texas voters at 47 percent against Trump’s 46 percent, with a margin of...
How congressional campaigns are dealing with COVID-19
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic grips the nation and the world, congressional races go on. Democrats flip two House seats in Texas in the 2018 midterms, and are hoping to build on those gains in 2020. However, 2020 is shaping up to be a very different year than 2018. ...