Latinx Democrats In Texas Support O'Rourke Over Castro And Biden In New Poll

[highplainsdem]

https://www.keranews.org/post/latinx-democrats-texas-support-orourke-over-castro-and-biden-new-poll

Former U.S. Housing Secretary Julian Castro, the only Latino seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, is struggling among likely Latinx voters in Texas.

Castro, the mayor of San Antonio from 2009-2014, had just short of 8% support among the voting bloc, according to a Texas Lyceum poll released Thursday.

Meanwhile, the other Texan seeking the nomination, former El Paso Congressman Beto O'Rourke, had 22% support among Latinx voters.

Josh Blank, research director for the Texas Lyceum poll, said O’Rourke’s support among Latinx voters is “residue” from his close U.S. Senate race last year.

“He really did work very hard to communicate with groups – and particular groups that Democrats see as the future of their coalition, like Hispanics – as a central strategy in his campaign,” Blank said. “And I think he has seen the benefit of that.”

Albert Morales – the senior political director at Latino Decisions, a polling firm based in Washington, D.C. – said Castro hasn’t had the same kind of exposure to Texas voters as O’Rourke has, which is a disadvantage overall.

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The frontrunner among Democrats in Texas, former Vice President Joe Biden, lagged behind O'Rourke, too. The poll found he had about 16% support from Latinix voters. He does have strong support among white and black voters in Texas – 27% and 33%, respectively.

Although he didn't have the most Latinx support, Biden was ahead of all other candidates in that Lyceum poll, 24% to 18% for O'Rourke, who was in second place.

Thread posted yesterday about the poll:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287266503

[dalton99a]

1. Not just exposure. Castro didn't lift a finger to help Texas Democrats in the midterms

while Beto worked his ass off and generously shared his campaign funds with downticket candidates

[Gothmog]

2. The Castro brothers burn some bridges by not stepping up during the mid terms

[Rstrstx]

4. Didn't the Dallas Morning Herald call them out about that once?

They seem to be very risk averse, quite the opposite of Beto. There's a reason you see thousands of Beto stickers on cars around the state, far more than any other politician.

[Gothmog]

5. The state party was not happy with the Castro brothers

The party organized a series of town halls to try to convince Joaquin to run for Governor. I attended one of these town halls and it was standing room only. There are some hurt feelings

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. I like Beto & Julian, and can't help but wonder if one or both of them should've run for Senate. nt