Scudder Says Texas Is Not for Sale
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[0:00] Gina Hinojosa, soon to be the first Latina governor of Texas after her party
[0:03] won the governor's mansion and a Senate seat.
[0:06] But it's the breadth of the Democrats sweep in the state that's the real
[0:10] headline here. With the party making history last
[0:12] night, winning every single statewide race from treasurer to railroad
[0:17] commissioner to four state Supreme Court seats.
[0:20] Let's bring in Kendall Scudder, now the chair of the Texas Democratic Party.
[0:25] Mr. chairman, how did you do it?
[0:28] Well, it was a huge team effort of a lot of people working really hard over a lot
[0:32] of years, in a lot of cycles. In the last year and a half, we have
[0:36] just rethought this party's infrastructure from the ground up, taken
[0:40] on a 254 county strategy, leaving nobody behind.
[0:44] I just am grateful every day to have the opportunity to help lead this team.
[0:47] And I think now we're charged with helping a whole lot of people, and I
[0:52] think we're ready to meet that moment. Well, we heard governor elect Hinojosa
[0:57] in her remarks there, refer to billionaires, and we're well aware of
[1:00] just how much money was spent in Texas this cycle on behalf of Republicans
[1:04] against Democrats, and just how much of it came from Elon Musk in particular,
[1:08] who l