Texas Democrats issue report on 2020 elections
The Texas Democratic Party, whose entreaties for more spending in the state by the Biden campaign were denied in the final stretch of the 2020 election, is already making its case for future resources in a report to be released on Monday.
The “2020 Retrospective” obtained by The Washington Post optimistically concludes that with a beefed-up voter registration program capable of registering 100,000 to 150,0000 more Democrats than Republicans per cycle, Democrats can turn the state blue by 2024.
“We need to massively expand our voter registration ambitions,” according to the review conducted and authored by Hudson Cavanagh, the Texas Democrats’ director of data science. “From 2018 to 2020, we lost ground in terms of voter registration, losing about 26,000 net votes. However, there are more than enough potential registrants to flip the state if we invest in and execute effective programs at scale.”
“Republicans did better in activating their base in Texas among high-propensity voters, low-propensity voters and everyone in between. Republicans had a better turnout operation than we did,” the report states.
The Democratic dream of turning Texas blue failed to materialize last November. But President Biden came closest to flipping the Lone Star state than any other Democrat in the last 25 years, losing the state to Donald Trump by 631,221 votes....
Democrats turnout efforts were severely hampered by suspension of in-person voter contact due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the report’s findings, along with “inefficient targeting” of low-to-moderate propensity voters. That, wrote Cavanaugh, was “partially a symptom of our inability to do in-person canvassing because we were not able to effectively reach large portions of our base for whom we lacked quality contact information."
“The pandemic prevented us from getting the most out of our most powerful competitive advantage: our volunteers. We struggled to reach voters for whom we did not have phone numbers, who were disproportionately young, rural and folks of color,” the report concludes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/21/texas-democrats-issue-report-2020-elections/
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