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Lines for voting on day one of early voting for the 2020 elections at the Southpark Meadows shopping center in South Austin.
Many Texans continue to deal with the aftermath of February’s deep freeze, as water outages and high electric bills continue. But memory is a fickle thing and it’s unclear whether politicians in the state will pay a price for the ways they handled the storm.
Reporter Alex Samuels of the politics website FiveThirtyEight has been wondering what Texas voters will remember when they head to the ballot box in 2022 and 2024. Samuels told Texas Standard that several structural aspects of politics in Texas will make it difficult for Democrats to take advantage of anger over incumbent Republicans’ uneven response to the winter storm.