have not voted in big numbers in texas. and that s one of the reasons why the guy who s running against ted cruz, o rourke, said it s not so much texas is a red state, it s that texas is a nonvoting state. kevin, thank you. ranuku, thank you as well. the nine-day teacher strike that closed schools across west virginia should soon be over. the demands the state now say that it is ready to meet. also, north korea apparently ready to talk. south korea says the north is willing to discuss eliminating its nuclear arsenal. we ve been here before. is this time any different? ande are finding themselves in a chevrolet for the first time. trying something new can be exciting. empowering. downright exhilarating. see for yourself why chevrolet is the most awarded and fastest growing brand, the last four years overall. switch into a new chevy now.
incomplete. katie tur, thanks, as always, for your insight. we look forward to your interview with susan mcdougal. the former clinton business partner who was jailed for refusing to comply with a subpoena during the whitewater investigation. that is in the 2:00 eastern hour. at 5:00 eastern, chuck todd is going to be talk to the man that sam nunberg called his mentor, roger stone joining chuck this afternoon at 5:00. women storming the texas primaries. at least 50 female candidates are on the ballot. the challenges they face and the support they have received as they jump into politics. also, the challenge of senator ted cruz. the underdog bid from a congressman that s picking up momentum in the lone star state.
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
presidential election that year. you got to go back to 1998. remember, these two guys, ben n benson, dukakis. they ran for president, vice president. lloyd benson, the last democrat to win a senate race in texas, 30 years ago. you got to go back to 1984 to find a single democrat who won any statewide election in texas. basically an entire generation without a democrat winning statewide. that s what democrats are up against. why would they think it might be different this year? mentioned it is a midterm. there s also this diversity. texas has been changing demographically. you see a bigger latino population. a slightly larger black population. these groups voting more and more democratic. there s an opportunity there for democrats. like we said, there s just the fact that, hey this is the trump midterm. trump carried texas by nine points. that s a pretty healthy margin. but that s low compared to what republicans have been doing. usually in the double diblgits. so trump lost some ground
right, at the very end. but i would sense that some of that dissatisfaction is more on the right than on the left. and your last piece, kevin, you wrote, in part, a big obstacle for democrats in texas is a history of low voter turnout, especially among latinos. have fights over immigration, have they galvanized democrats at all in texas? yes, i think they re galvanizing democrats. the thing you ve got to watch out for in texas is increasing the latino vote doesn t necessarily take democrats to the promised land. republicans poll or do very well with hispanic with latinos in texas. they get upwards of upper 30s, low 40s. so just simply getting latinos to the polls is not going to get the democrats over the top. that said, it will help, and they re certainly trying to make that push. but, yes, historically, latinos