Tag Archives: Democrats must regroup after ‘brutal’ legislative session but now face difficult midterm elections

AUSTIN — Weeks before the November 2020 elections, several Democrats filed candidacies to become speaker of the Texas House, banking on their party winning the nine seats necessary to wrestle the chamber from Republican control. But Republicans easily beat back their rivals and held the House, guaranteeing that the Democratic Party would spend at least one more cycle in the …

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