Texas Democrats Tell Congress Democracy Is Under Attack In The Lone Star State
Texas Democrats Tell Congress Democracy Is Under Attack In The Lone Star State
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WASHINGTON — Texas Democrats told Congress on Thursday that state Republicans were carrying out an attack on the voting rights of minorities to stop the onetime GOP stranglehold from trending any further purple — or even one day falling to the Democrats in an election.
Amid shifting demographics in Texas, which has not voted for a Democrat in a presidential election since Jimmy Carter in 1976, Democrats have grown increasingly hopeful of a return to electoral relevance.