The party faces internal tension over the Israel-Hamas war and Biden’s new immigration policy heading into November.
Recommended VideosBut those pitfalls got only passing attention during the Texas Democratic Party ’s three-day convention in El Paso, where party leaders and a few thousand rank-and-file activists gathered to mobilize behind their nominees and hone their pitch for November. The party emerged with a message that boiled down to defying Republican “extremism,” energizing voters around abortion rights, public education and gun access, and painting a dark picture of a second Trump presidency.
“No one is more self-serving, more disconnected from Texans’ needs,” Allred said, calling the state’s junior senator"the ultimate 'me guy.'" “What I'm really worried about, and this relates to my candidacy, is that our party is not going to be unified there. There's a lot of fear right now. There's a lot of division over the Middle East,” Albert said, pitching himself as an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Amid a stream of anti-Trump rhetoric and talk of Republican “extremism,” Escobar told the convention crowd that Democrats can’t just focus on the GOP’s policies.
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