The 90-minute event gave voters a chance to compare the candidates side by side.
President Joe Biden’s unsteady performance at Thursday’s presidential debate has sparked a wave of anxiety among Texas Democrats, some of whom fear their party’s standard bearer could drag down the rest of the ticket and cost Democrats down-ballot seats in November.
“I think that if you are a down-ballot candidate in a swing area, that candidate's responsibility for turnout becomes even bigger than it was before yesterday,” said Ed Espinoza, a Democratic strategist who previously oversaw the progressive group Progress Texas. “You're gonna need an extra push.” “I don't think members should say anything that they will regret later before everybody's had a chance to just kind of chill a little bit,” he said.Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, center, as Democratic members of the Texas legislature hold a news conference at the Capitol in Washington in July 2021.
“It just confirmed what all Americans already know: that he is a feeble man not able to perform the duties of his position,” said U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-McAllen, who is facing a competitive challenge from Democrat Michelle Vallejo to keep her seat in the 15th district. Abortion rights are perhaps the leading issue for Texas Democrats up and down the ballot, including at the Texas Supreme Court, whicha Dallas woman's request to obtain an abortion for a nonviable pregnancy that her doctors said threatened her health and future fertility.The PAC’s leader, former Under Secretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones, expressed optimism in the wake of Biden’s poor performance, citing Trump’s abortion comments.
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