If Democrats could flip Texas, it would be a political earthquake. The state is changing in such a way that they are potentially demographically going to be on the outs. You've got millions of new voters who weren't voting in 2020 or 2018. And so everybody's scrambling to try to connect to these voters on balance.
Republicans have firmly held the Texas governorship since 1995. Beto O’Rourke’s campaign is both a long shot and Democrats’ best challenge in decades.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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