are most likely to like. for instance, when we take a look at wendy davis biography, we get stuff like this. by the time i was 19, i also was already married and divorced and raising a young daughter myself, living in poverty and facing the same challenges and hardships that i d seen my mother face. she went from being raised by a mother with a sixth grade education, who supported her four kids, to living in a trailer park with her own child, to graduating the first in her class, to going on to harvard law school, to become a texas state senator in 2008. these up by the bootstraps details of wendy davis bio are familiar, and when she became a rock star last june, it was those details that not only helped to endear her to the people of texas, but helped make her a national star, including right here on this network. all of it has helpederer raise $12 billion. but that s not the whole story about wendy davis, because it s never the whole story about any candidate. reporter wayne sl
school. but a closer look suggests the exact details are more elusive. for example . my mom started out like many folks do in a very tough spot. she was raised by a single mother with a sixth grade education. reporter: now davis says her mother dropped out in ninth grade. by the time i was 19, i was a single parent. and i was living in a mobile home in southeast ft. worth. reporter: it turns out davis separated from her husband at age 19, but didn t divorce until she was 21. and the trailer park, which has gotten top billing in her buyo, the reality is, she may have only lived there for a few months. because of the scrutiny surrounding wendy davis story, her campaign put out a two-page biography of her early life. it says she was married at 18, and she and her husband had their first child at 19, and lived here. at some point they were separated and wendy davis and her daughter remained here. but it s not exactly clear just how long that was. the biography says they struggled t
i can t remember how old i am right now. to be honest, i worked on many, many campaigns, that s why you do research on yourself and the reason why you read everything before it goes out, because these are the little things that can get you into big trouble, and the reason why, is because the constituents will take a look, wait a minute, if you really can t tell the truth about the small stuff, how am i going to believe you on the big stuff? the part of the republican argument is that she did not just talk about this, but she also touted this personal story in ad campaigns. here s one with her daughter. single mother with a sixth grade education, she married young, and by 19 was divorced and raising me as a single mother. you know how they say everything s bigger in texas? well, that certainly wasn t the case for the trailer we lived in. jason, part of her campaign strategy is to woo women voters with this story of struggle, as we said, something relatable. she grabbed national
wh why is that? in 50 years we have not been able to make a huge dent. obviously, you re right, there probably would be a lot more people. research is showing a large part is income inequality. the rich is making more, the middle class is dwindling, and the poor can barely survive. at the same time, i think the republicans are using some of these arguments to justify slashing even more from people who are already trying to make it from day to day. you know, my mother and father had less than a sixth-grade education, but because of a lot of the policies they have a son who sits in the congress of the united states. i mean, i want every child to have that opportunity to be able to rise up, and most parents want that for their kids. but right now they don t have that kind of hope because, again, in working harder, making less, to rich are getting richer, and they re losing hope. what do we need to do? one of the things we ve got do is deal with these unemployment benefits. we ha
powerhouse, she s probably about the best bet the democrats could put up against scott walker. it s a lot of women democratic challengers around the country. speaking of which wendy davis released her first ad-in her texas run for governor and features her daughter. my mom started out like many folks do, in a tough spot. she was raised by a single mother with a sixth grade education. she married young and by 19 was divorced and raising me as a single mother. wendy davis setting aside the pink mizunos filibuster, remember record on reproductive rights, which may not help her in tech, has an incredible personal story. we don t know that much about her as a candidate. i ask you, wendy davis focus on background, by okay, hard scrabble economics and not talk so much about abortion and reproductive freedom. that s not a broadening issue to run on.