Texas Democrats unveil plan to flip the state from red to blue in 2020

[brooklynite]

CBS News

The Democratic Party of Texas is laying out its plans to end decades of Republican dominance in the state, touting a substantial voter registration and turnout effort to create a blue wave of elected officials in 2020. It released its planning document Monday morning, the same week as Houston's Democratic presidential debates.

The party set a goal of registering 2.6 million Texans to vote, boosting turnout in suburban areas and putting 1,000 field organizers on the ground.

"We will win the White House, take out John Cornyn, expand our Texas congressional delegation, break the supermajority in the Texas Senate, flip the Texas House, and elect hundreds of local Democrats across the state," wrote Texas Democratic Party deputy executive director Cliff Walker.

In addition to focusing on signing up unregistered voters and increasing turnout in growingly diverse as well as reliably Democratic areas, the plan also includes a focus on voter protection. A year-round hotline will be put in place to report any cases of voting suppression, and Texas Democrats have teamed with Democratic lawyers to be ready to fight those cases.

MJ Hegar wants to meet on Monday; will be interesting to see what her perspective on the State Party is.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Turn Texas blue!

[bluecollar2]

2. I really hope that the party

Will go all out in attacking the voter suppression efforts which have become routine in Texas.

I left Texas 3 years ago and the republican party was awful.