Former HUD secretary Julián Castro (left) walks the floor of the Texas Democratic Party convention, which was held virtually from a studio in a Central Texas hotel. “I wish we were all together this year under different circumstances,” Biden said in a recorded address to Texas Democrats. “For the national party, this probably would be more effective,” said Gilbert Hinojosa, chairman of Texas’s Democratic Party, after the event wrapped on Saturday. None of the in-person guests required special security, something that wouldn’t be true of a Democratic National Convention. When the party’s traditional tech contractor laid off some of its staff, Texas Democrats gave one of them a contract to run it all.

Source: Washington Post June 07, 2020 23:37 UTC