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Help Dayna Steele Make History By Beating Brian Babin In Texas
I'll be blockwalking for Dayna again next weekend! She really is an amazing person. If ANYONE could pull this off, it's Dayna!
Let’s Help Dayna Steele Make History By Beating Brian Babin In Texas
If Dayna Steele was just another garden variety Democrat, there would be little reason to talk about her November contest against far right incumbent, Brian Babin. But she isn’t. Dayna is an icon in the district, once the music director for KLOL, Houston’s top rock station. Everyone knows her as the person who introduced them to their favorite artists. Dayna starts with a bigger name recognition, at least in the Houston part of the district, than the backbencher incumbent. Oh, and she won her primary 72% to 28%.
TX-36 has a prohibitive R+26 PVI, a district Trump won with 72%. But because they already know — and like — Dayna, voters in the sprawling east Texas district are willing to hear her out. When she talks to the voters about Medicare-For-All, making community college and career training free, a $15-an-hour minimum wage, fighting for sensible gun reform, the right to choice, equal pay, protection from sexual harassment, and equal opportunity, passing the DREAM Act and rejecting Trump’s Wall, progressive issues start making sense to people who have listened to too much Fox News for their own good. She told me that following the March primary, an election judge in her district reached out to say, “I’ve never seen so many Republicans walk into our polling place and ask how to vote for a Democrat, specifically Dayna Steele.”
Dayna sees hope where other Democrats have been too scared to try. In 2016 the Democrats didn’t even run a candidate against Babin. “Not only are we seeing a growing Blue Wave in Texas,” she told us, “we are also seeing a growing concern for our very Democracy among honest, hard-working Americans. So much so, that independents, undecideds, and even many Republicans are coming to our campaign to say ‘I will vote for you. I will work for you. I will donate to you.’
TX-36 has a prohibitive R+26 PVI, a district Trump won with 72%. But because they already know — and like — Dayna, voters in the sprawling east Texas district are willing to hear her out. When she talks to the voters about Medicare-For-All, making community college and career training free, a $15-an-hour minimum wage, fighting for sensible gun reform, the right to choice, equal pay, protection from sexual harassment, and equal opportunity, passing the DREAM Act and rejecting Trump’s Wall, progressive issues start making sense to people who have listened to too much Fox News for their own good. She told me that following the March primary, an election judge in her district reached out to say, “I’ve never seen so many Republicans walk into our polling place and ask how to vote for a Democrat, specifically Dayna Steele.”
Dayna sees hope where other Democrats have been too scared to try. In 2016 the Democrats didn’t even run a candidate against Babin. “Not only are we seeing a growing Blue Wave in Texas,” she told us, “we are also seeing a growing concern for our very Democracy among honest, hard-working Americans. So much so, that independents, undecideds, and even many Republicans are coming to our campaign to say ‘I will vote for you. I will work for you. I will donate to you.’
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