A planned delay of the vote on redistricting was lost because Carol Alvardo got greedy. Why did she need to fundraise from a filibuster she planned? It is not that she lacks campaign funds; she has over 1.5 million dollars cash on hand.
What are the Democrats doing right in California, Arizona, and New Mexico that Texas isn’t? Texas Democrats struggle to come close to defeating a Republican governor. The last time the Democrats elected a governor was in 1990 when Ann Richards won by three percentage points. 1994 was the last time that Democrats managed to get 45% of the vote total for governor—source for the information on governor’s races.
In the last three elections, Democrats have failed to come close to winning:
I looked at the last 40 years of elections, and the following is true: Whites vote for whites, Blacks vote for Democrats, and Latinos are all over the place. George W. Bush worked hard to get Latinos to vote Republican, and his work is still paying dividends for the Republican Party.