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Energizing the cities in Texas also forces the GOP to spend time and money defending their strongholds. Biden doesn't need to win Texas, but if voters show up and elect more down-ballot representatives at state and local levels, that will be good for Texas and by extension the rest of the nation.
Huh...
Excellent points, truly didnt consider. Now if only we could get Joe to also go after WI, MI, and PA harder... i think those are key.
H. Clinton made the mistake in 2016 of not campaigning everywhere. DNC made the same mistake in many, many elections over the years.
The DNC needs to campaign in every possible place, obviously they need to have a bigger spend, and a bigger push in swing states, but the more they campaign everywhere, the more down ballot Dems get attention. They need more than a president to get shit done.
Start adding more progressives to the house and (maybe someday) the senate, and we'll start turning this ship around.
Agreed. My local area put a progressive (u know, an actual one) in office a couple election cycles ago and shes been very popular with her constituents.
Progressives are so much easier to elect locally. It's a much simpler sell to point out local issues with progressive solutions than it is to make larger, sweeping changes at a state or national level.
Bottom up, amigo! When the low level supports more progressives at higher levels, those endorsements from popular local officials will go a long way.
If you look at the primary figures in Texas right now, Dem participation has completely tanked out. Collin Alfred got less than half the votes Ted Cruz racked in during the primary. The Dem polling locations were dead while Republicans stormed to polls to support their guys.
Its going to be a bloodbath in Texas come 2024. Again. Because Dems insist on running the most milk toast, uninspiring, "safe" hack candidates imaginable, for fear of some labor group or environmental movement accidentally forming around someone with a spine.
That's just because the Democratic Party sucks ass. Look at how they treated Beto.
He was just a big money sponge they could suck dry.