Texas Democratic Party

There's not much meat on that bone.

With the midterm elections on the line, let's bring in former Democratic senator and MS Now political analyst Claire McCaskill, the Travis County, Texas Democratic Party chair and former director of voter expansion Luke Worford, and our own MS Now White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez.

Claire, uh, this is how The New York Times summed up whatever that rally was.

Trump talked a lot about the border, and Democrats, and himself.

They're from the Valley.

And he was the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party for a long time.

Um, I forgot his name, but his last name was Hinojosa.

But so she's been around politics, but she's not the establishment, like all the things-

accumulated knowledge? I think you have to go to the state and county parties for a lot.

And again, I was working in Texas politics in the early 90s when the Texas Democratic Party imploded.

And you could just see the talent was going to the Republicans.

I was friends with more Republican staffers than I was Democratic.

That's what I think defines Black people.

So says Gavin Newsom, one of the leading candidates for president among the Democrats.

It's so delightful.

It's one of my favorite...

Not quite.

I don't think so.

Okay, now we turn from California Democrats to Texas Democrats.

Texas Democrats, forget about pandering, they are now openly admitting that they are explicitly buying votes from people in contravention of state and federal law.

And he has previously argued that such restrictions stem from, quote, Christ of fascism movement.

Jennifer Miranda, a manager with the Texas Together and the Texas Democratic Party, characterized the shift as, quote, strategic and separate footage released by the outlet as well.

In other words, we'll just lie to win an election and do what we always do, which is be radical crazies who want to mutilate children and want men to play in women's sports.

But instead, they're like, no, no, no, we'll tell you whatever we think you want to hear right before the election day.

But it had slipped my mind that Gina Hinojosa's father, you know, as she goes around running for governor.

That her father, of course, was the longtime chairman of the Texas Democratic Party.

He was a county judge in Cameron County in the Brownsville area.

And when he stepped down as chairman of the TDP, he kind of gave a little lecture to Democrats about all this culture war stuff.

So the more that his past record gets circulated to your average Texas voters, it could propel them from pulling the lever for this Democrat candidate.

What has Jennifer Miranda of the Texas Democratic Party said about Talarico and his shift in public views?

Yeah, so Jennifer Miranda, she is a manager with Texas Together, with the Texas Democratic Party, and she was caught on video saying that Talarico's political makeover is basically a lie.

She told someone on, in, in our undercover footage saying, quote, "I would say right now he's trying to target a wider net, which unfortunately means being more palatable to Republicans here in Texas.

He really needs a win over those Texas voters." She said, quote, "You talk to some Republicans, and they're very Republican, especially in Texas, very, very to the right," she said.

And he has previously argued that such restrictions stem from, quote, Christ of fascism movement.

Jennifer Miranda, a manager with the Texas Together and the Texas Democratic Party, characterized the shift as, quote, strategic and separate footage released by the outlet as well.

In other words, we'll just lie to win an election and do what we always do, which is be radical crazies who want to mutilate children and want men to play in women's sports.

But instead, they're like, no, no, no, we'll tell you whatever we think you want to hear right before the election day.

And so when I when I talk to folks here, what they say, it feels different from Beto.

Even the Texas Democratic Party says it feels different, not just because the national environment is better for Democrats, but because Tallarico feels different to people.

Yes.

I would also argue that, yes, the national environment is different, but also what's different is the organization on the ground here in Texas.

You guys had Kendall Scudder on.

Kendall Scudder was—come on, Kendall Scudder! Kendall Scudder is the chair of the Texas Democratic Party, and he won re-election about a year and a half ago.

And I think what is different this time than the last time Democrats were very competitive in Texas in the Beto race— is that the organization and infrastructure on the ground is very robust.

It is different.