{"id":1557131,"date":"2022-07-15T22:34:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T02:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1557131"},"modified":"2022-07-15T22:34:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T02:34:31","slug":"texas-democrats-believe-they-can-turn-state-blue-on-social-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-democrats-believe-they-can-turn-state-blue-on-social-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrats Believe They Can Turn State Blue on Social Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-democrats-believe-they-can-turn-state-blue-on-social-issues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1557131&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Progressive candidates running for Congress want abortion rights, gun control, and expansion of voting rights<\/p>\n<p>Democratic leaders in the Lone Star State vowed to turn Texas blue by running on progressive social change during the kickoff of the 2022 Texas State Democratic Convention in Dallas on July 14.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s event featured Democrats running for Congress and doubled as a fundraiser. It marked the first time in four years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas-democrats\">Texas Democrats<\/a> have met in person due to the pandemic. Delegates from across Texas will decide on the party\u2019s platform and elect a chairman. They will also hear from Beto O\u2019Rourke, their nominee to run against incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats hope to win more state and national seats by championing abortion rights, restricting gun ownership, and expanding voter rights, which they claim are being suppressed by Republicans concerned with voter fraud. Democrats are also working to keep Latinos in South Texas voting blue, which would benefit O\u2019Rourke in his race against Abbott.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/05\/25\/Texas-Uvalde-Abbott-Beto-ccet-DSC02688-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Mayor of Uvalde Don McLaughlin (back-left) tells Beto O\u2019Rourke (front-right) to leave as the latter disrupts a press conference held by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and federal, state, and local officials a day after a mass shooting at an elementary school, in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. (Charlotte Cuthbertson\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>Democratic Congressman Colin Allred, endorsed by progressives such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), is up for reelection in the northeastern suburbs of Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>The District 32 incumbent said \u201cextremists\u201d were currently in charge of Texas politics. He believes Democrats can win the state\u2019s 40 electoral college votes if the party sticks together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are on the verge of a change,\u201d he told the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Allred, a former Tennessee Titans linebacker, pointed to his success in beating Republican incumbent Rep. Pete Sessions in the 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic leaders in the Lone Star State vowed to turn Texas blue by running on progressive social change during the kickoff of the 2022 Texas State Democratic Convention in Dallas on July 14. Thursday\u2019s event featured Democrats running for Congress and doubled as a fundraiser. It marked the first time in four years Texas Democrats [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":904,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}