Scudder: Texas Democrats Are More Organized Than in 2018
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[0:00] Texas Democrats have gotten their hopes up.
[0:02] In previous cycles, you could look back to better O'Rourke in 2018 as a prime
[0:07] example. What's different about this one?
[0:11] Yeah, thanks for having me on, Kelly, I appreciate it.
[0:13] Um, I think there are a couple of things that are different this year than from
[0:16] 2018. Uh, first, when I got elected chairman
[0:19] last year, we started building infrastructure all across the state in a
[0:22] 254 county strategy. Uh, we've recruited and trained more
[0:25] than a thousand precinct chairs. We recruited candidates to run in every
[0:29] single state and office, state and federal office in Texas for the first
[0:32] time since 1972. We have a real infrastructure apparatus
[0:36] operating right now that we didn't have in 2018.
[0:40] I think another thing that we have is that our whole slate is operating
[0:45] together as a team instead of, you know, better our work, who is kind of doing
[0:49] that on his own. We have everybody folding into the state
[0:52] party's coordinated campaign for the first time since 1982, where we're all
[0:56] moving in the same direction. And what you're seeing up and down the
[0:59] ballot is not just James