, including Florida, North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia. Texas, which has 36 U.S. House seats and the potential to gain as many as three more because of its rapid population growth over the past decade, is viewed as the most important, said Ben Wexler-Waite, communications director of Forward Majority, a Democratic organization that is targeting several Republican-led state legislatures in 2020.
The first test of the Democrats' latest effort comes in the Jan. 28 special election in Fort Bend County, west of Houston. Markowitz, an educator and textbook author, is running against Republican Gary Gates, a real estate investor, to replace state Rep. John Zerwas, a Republican, inEliz Markowitz thanks volunteers, including Beto O'Rourke, at left, who canvassed on her behalf on Jan. 11.
And in an email to local Republicans last fall, a Fort Bend County party official described the special election as"," seeming to acknowledge the changing political winds in the community west of Houston. Once a Republican bastion — the home district of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — Fort Bend is regarded as one of the fastest-growing and most rapidly diversifying counties in the country.
Everything before the comma was unnecessary. Thanks Beto.
BetoORourke should run for Senate!! Giving up cuz you couldn't be President is cowardly. The fight is not over and we won't win with attitudes like this.
He looks like he’s playing marbles.
Third time loser?
Why would anyone want help from someone that’s gone 0-2 their last two elections?
He couldn't win a seat in the Senate. He couldn't get out of his own way running for President. But this guy is going to flip a state that gave realDonaldTrump 9 points over Clinton in 2016?!
Are the DNC literally hoping to lose all they have in Texas? he can't be the only choice XD
There's been a lot of talk with Texas. Will they reform the jail system that sucks the life out of people that are only guilty of petty crimes?
He’s doing the best he can with the life he has.
What a putz.
His winning personality and track record will come in handy , for the Republican party
this photo looks like a family stopped to help a homeless guy who ran out in front of their car
Hell yeah!
lmao. When will he learn, nobody likes him!
Can win, join them
But then where will people flee to escape the economic and social chaos they will cause...
The Democrats better be careful remember POTUS Reagan he won an awful lot of democratic held states. POTUS Trump can easily do the same thing. The Democrats running for POTUS are socialist/communist, fascists or marxists. The dems will lose in 2020
I really hope they can pull it off but if they don’t it’s going to be because the SCOTUS conservative-enabled racist gerrymanders have made it nearly impossible for even solid majorities of voters to remove conservatives from power
God bless Texan Dems !
Our people are suffering at the hands of the gop. They are fully responsible for skyrocketing rent and homeless on the streets. Call a spade a spade.
Going to turn into California. Beware!
Go Texans! Make it happen!
Hahahahaha NOT A CHANCE
Please help flip TX-24 Blue. Thanks.
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Forever a betocrat
Beto is such a good man. A Texan who makes me proud to be a Texan.
beto has *been* the fight for years. he didn’t “join” the fight. stop lying and spreading misinformation. now, zip it and take a seat, and shove your bs where the sun don’t shine
To all the Trumpers in the comments, very creative of you. 👏.
deray Uh, NBC News - it's Beto O'Rourke who is leading the fight and who has started PoweredbyPeople to fund the fight to take back the Texas House so Democrats have a hand in redistricting in 2021 and can get rid of gerrymandering.
Beto gon git er dunn
Grateful that BetoORourke is still in the fight! Can't wait to TurnTexasBlue in 2020! You can help us! Sign up here: PoweredbyPeople
Beto is my hero!
He showed in his presidential run that he’s much further left than Texas Democrats. I don’t know if you’ll find a lot who support of late abortions, taking away tax exemption status from churches, and mandatory rifle buybacks. 🤷🏻♂️
Because he can't hold a real job that actually adds value to society
Shaking hands and kissing babies. How cute.
With the influx of Californians into the Austin area and Texas in general,this may be possible. trump had everyone worried about immigrants crossing the border. Forgot about liberals migrating from California since it’s basically ruined now. Imagine a blue Texas...
Hang in there Beto...your day WILL COME. Just keep fighting the good fight young man...
What’s the difference!! BETO is a joke and a convict, et al and should be handled with accordingly!!
I see that's an Astros hat Bob is wearing.
deray Thank you Beto! BetoORourke
He's leading the effort.
BetoORourke run for senate and throw Cruz out of office!
Not my guns!
By “joined” they mean “leading” the fight, including founding a PAC to raise money and coordinate volunteers for dozens of candidates.
Hopefully, the long tall Texans stand firm and deny teenie tiny wimpy corrupt Democrats the majority.
If Texas listens to Beto ( the one that can’t win) then Texas is not the state I thought it was. Too bad he has all that money to burn and not have to work.
Why would anyone let their children near that man after he came out and told us the dreams he had?
2 time loser to lead. Makes sense.
deray Twitter pundits did Beto and Kamala dirty.
Thank you.
Your hero’s are zeros
TX we NEED to stop this! We have some crazy leaders but allowing TheDemocrats take over will bring whole new level of crazy &dysfunction. People worry about immigrants from other countries but we should worry more about implants from CA/NY who have changed dynamics quite a bit.
0for2 FactsMatter
Good luck flipping Texas you liberal hacks. 😆
After Roberts desperate reach to the extreme left while having a failed run at president I doubt hell be much help in Texas any more.
I'm sure the guy who consistently polled at 0% will be a huge help😂
He tries to hard to act/look like an every guy Joe.
Didn’t he say he was going to get out of politics if he lost the presidential race?
How many times are you allowed to loss in the Democrat party?
I hope he works close Elizabeth Warren so he can help torpedo her campaign too with gun control.
State houses. The next big thing.
Do not destroy Texas!
progressivefever
Still fighting, that's great.
and Beto teaming up. Oh how NBC has fallen even lower.
parscale SenTedCruz All hands on deck watch out
It takes a super evil Democrat to try to steal Texas. Shit... can’t we have anything?
This is where we need him
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