Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\nScudder cited the Senate matchup between U.S. Rep Jasmine Crockett of Dallas, known for a fiery, partisan style, and state Rep. James Talarico of Austin, who has leaned on a softer, faith-tinged message. <\/p>\n
He said the primary will let voters decide which approach they prefer, with the party remaining neutral before unifying behind the nominee.<\/p>\n
INFRASTRUCTURE REBUILD: Scudder acknowledged the difficulty Democrats face statewide but said the party is focused on rebuilding its network, noting that many precincts and counties lack local party chairs. <\/p>\n
Scudder said recruiting candidates for every state and federal race forces Republicans to defend their records and prevents incumbents from receiving what he described as free passes.<\/p>\n
PROPOSITION ROADMAP: George, meanwhile, described the Republican primary as a mechanism to shape policy and protect the party\u2019s nominating process.<\/p>\n
He said the GOP ballot will have issue propositions, providing a governing roadmap for party activists and lawmakers. Property taxes, he said, are dominating discussions this cycle and driving broader debates about affordability.<\/p>\n
He also emphasized a legal push, still pending, to close the state GOP primaries to Republicans only, saying open primaries allow Democrats to influence Republican outcomes. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf we do get it done, I think it will make a difference in who gets elected, for sure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
ELECTION OUTLOOK: George expressed confidence about November, saying Republicans expect an expensive November but believe recent redistricting gains give the party an advantage. <\/p>\n
He said the party is positioned to expand its congressional delegation to as many as 31 seats and make Democratic nominees an easy contrast for GOP voters statewide.<\/p>\n
From staff reports<\/p>\n
Lone Star Politics airs at 8:30 a.m. Sundays, hosted by NBC5 political reporter Phil Prazan and The Dallas Morning News political reporter Gromer Jeffers Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Democratic Party Chairman Kendall Scudder and Texas Republican Party Chairman Abraham George offered sharply different visions recently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[409,223,287,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-118983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}