there? yes, craig, i grew up in this district. folks down here have heard this song before. the idea of turning texas blue has been something that democrats have wanted to do since they last won a statewide office in the early 1990s. it has not happened, but the climate seems right, a lot of these voters are telling me, between the unpopular president trump and the opportunity of having some candidates involved. that s really the big change here. democrats have fielded candidates in every single one of texas s congressional districts and in some places like the texas second district where i m standing now, they have multiple candidates. i want to show you behind me the sort of line of folks behind the signs greeting voters as they come in. contains, as i can count right now, two democratic congressional candidates and one candidate for governor. we re in essentially downtown houston. democrats are fighting this
fund-raising networks. kevin, let me put up trump s current polling in texas. 39% approval. 54% disapproval. how far will those numbers get democrats there in texas? well, i m not sure that those numbers reflect any movement to the left in texas. so much as you have to remember in texas, the republican base is very, very conservative. you remember this is cruz country. ted cruz was the last guy standing, running against donald trump in the republican primaries. and a lot of these people had to be brought in reluctantly. they ve come around. but i haven t seen the cross tabs on those numbers. but i wouldn t be surprised if some of that dissatisfaction with trump is that some people on the far right are still need to be convinced. they aren t happy with some of the things they saw in his first year. obamacare repeal not getting through. tax reform, yes, that helped,
in a negative way. you saw the dccc, the democratic campaign arm essentially, drop opposition research against a woman who is a progressive activi activist. she moved back to houston where she is originally from last year. the democratic party actually went after her, essentially trying to keep her out of a runo runoff, saying she s too liberal for this district, she s not really come here. moser came over and talked to me and pushed back on those accusations. what do you say to people who think you sort of carpetbagged in here for this race? you know, i really don t hear that from people on the ground ever. a lot of people in houston come here for work and a lot of people move for work and that is what it is to be an american in 2018. mosser s backed by berner sanders political operation now. she has fund raised off this attack by the national party. one of the things she said that rings absolutely true is texans don t like to be told who to
year. the second is the wave of sexual harassment scandals we ve seen among some members of the texas congressional delegation. two people have had to resign because of sexual misconduct scandals. finally, opportunities. as the correspondent mentioned, there are eight opened seats this year and we re seeing a flood of candidates across republicans and democrats but especially democrats. you write that women are having a harder time raising money there in texas, despite the large number of them that are running. why is that? well, i think i think it s a structural challenge and it s not just here in texas, it s nationally. i talked to johnson who is a member of the texas delegation and she just said it s, you know, a lot of the donor net works and historical fund-raising networks are geared towards men and geared towards raising money for men. and so i think historically women have had a little bit of trouble raising money and tapping into those traditional
more. awkward and odious than it already is ok what about public support to territories war on drugs that have all a lot of public support initially what are your research findings showing right now in terms of public backing for the war on drugs in the philippines. look it s unquestionable that the thirty eight percent of the filipino a lecturer at that voted to tear it say into power in may of twenty sixteen that he retains really strong support amongst that constituency but we have to take a look at the numbers there you know president territories popularity ratings actually have started to decline since there has been very disturbing evidence that the philippines national police have been intentionally targeting children with the extradition executions but the other issue is that you know there s a difference between popularity and legitimacy you know present