Andrew White Will Enter The Race For Governor Thursday Morning
Houston investor Andrew White will declare his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor Thursday, Dec. 7. The son of the late Governor Mark White is making the announcement one day after former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez announced hers.
White is approaching the contest in a manner more familiar to Republicans running at the federal level: as an outsider running against a career politician.
“He’s self-financed, which I think helps a lot in this case,” said Jon Taylor, chair of the political science department at the University of Saint Thomas. “While he hasn’t run for public office before, he is kind of playing that middle field to try to attract moderate voters in the Democratic Party but more so moderate voters on the Republican side, as well as independent voters.”
Valdez already has the support of much of the state Democratic establishment behind her. But Mark Jones of Rice University’s Baker Institute said White does have a path to the nomination.
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