“We need to massively expand our voter registration ambitions,” according to the review conducted and written by Hudson Cavanagh, the Texas Democrats’ director of data science. Texas Democrats decided to undertake a review of their 2020 performance after falling short of high expectations. But Cornyn handily won reelection against MJ Hegar, and Texas Republicans largely held Democrats off. In turn, Texas Democrats want the national party to make major investments to turn the state “sustainably blue,” according to the report. Texas’s Latino voters did not abandon Democrats entirely, but “Latino voters did move toward Trump in the Rio Grande Valley and some predominantly Latino portions of the Panhandle,” according to the report.

Source: Washington Post February 22, 2021 03:57 UTC