An obscure special election runoff for a state House district near Houston is being called 2020's first bellwether of bigger trends to come. Presidential candidates Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg are trying to help Democrats win the seat.
In this January 11, 2020 photo former congressman, US Senate and Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks before a crowd of campaign volunteers for Eliz Markowitz in Katy, Texas. Markowitz is an educator running for district 148 of the Texas state house. O'Rourke and other national Democrats have endorsed Markowitz, her race is being viewed as a bellwether for national politics in 2020.
That’s a stretch, say Republicans, but it’s also easy to see why an obscure race for Texas House District 28 is a tempting testing ground.? Trump won this turf by 10 points in 2016. Can Democrats really flip the nation’s biggest red state? If they win this race, they’ll move within eight seats of retaking the Texas House. Is the GOP in trouble with minority voters? The surrounding county, Fort Bend, is often called the most diverse in America.
Nevertheless, last summer, Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, a Republican, was caught confiding to a conservative activistin urban and suburban districts. Gates, a real estate developer, said that was not his impression from the 150 homes he hits a day. Biden made a splash by endorsing Markowitz, and Bloomberg paused his own presidential campaign swing through Texas to walk a neighborhood with her. A national Democratic group called Forward Majority, which is spending millions of dollars nationwide to flip GOP-controlled statehouses, says it has spent $400,000 on the race, at least four times what the group spent on any other Texas district in 2018.
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