Lt. Col. Allen West resigned<\/a> from the role in April, following issues triggered by precinct-based voting and what he said were personal attacks launched within his own party.<\/p>\nOn the statewide level, Republicans said goodbye to their incumbent and voted in Randall as chair of the Texas Republican Party during the party\u2019s convention in June.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes we have to go in a different direction. And that\u2019s kind of where we are at this at this moment on a state level. We\u2019re going \u2014 we need to move in a different direction as well as on this county level in Dallas County. The people have spoken,\u201d said AJ Yvette, a member of the Dallas County Republican Party.<\/p>\n
The message was heard loud and clear for the Democrats as well. During their state convention in June, they stood behind their current chair, despite some Texas Democrats accusing the chair of \u201cmanaging the party poorly\u201d back in April.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, this is super exciting getting elected at a convention, right? Because it\u2019s very different than how I got elected in an interim, which is like of the executive body. So, to get 73% of the vote in a four-way race on the convention floor was a fantastic thing. I think what it means is that the grassroots of this party are very happy with the direction that it\u2019s going,\u201d said Scudder.<\/p>\n
Scudder was first elected after the former chair, Gilberto Hinojosa, resigned following what he called \u201cdevastating defeats up and down the ballot in Texas and across the country,\u201d back in November 2024.<\/p>\n
Now all roads lead to November for both parties, and Scudder is feeling especially confident.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe the path that we\u2019ve been taking has been working. We\u2019ve been winning elections all across Texas, in a Senate district in Tarrant County where Democrats typically wouldn\u2019t have even fielded a candidate. We threw down, put our whole coordinated campaign behind it, made 1.5 million phone calls, believed that previous elections don\u2019t vote. Polls don\u2019t vote. The people do. And we over-performed it by 31 points and flipped a seat in the Texas Senate. We flipped the mayor in Leander, the mayor in Pearland, the school board in Cy-Fair. I mean, we have been winning elections all across Texas with this reality and this focus: that people are who drive this government, not the billionaires, not the special interests. You are,\u201d said Scudder.<\/p>\n
Despite being the new kid on the block and being left with what he calls a \u201cfinancial mess,\u201d Montanez remains hopeful that with his military background and his experience in finance, the Dallas County Republican Party will overcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got about one month of cash on hand, and that\u2019s it. Doors closed, so it\u2019s tough,\u201d said Montanez.<\/p>\n
It also doesn\u2019t hurt that he\u2019s making history in the county as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing the first Latino chairperson for Dallas County in its history speaks volumes. Because I not only know how to reach out to those communities authentically. I also understand how to sit down with them, how to engage them, and then in which way to engage them so that we can bring them into the Republican Party and win in November,\u201d said Montanez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 Texas Democrats are sticking by their chair after reelecting Kendall Scudder to the role during their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1657,1658,2160,132,8455,1570,102,138,223,287,82,27,29,28,1569,2053,835],"class_list":["post-365408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-app-latest-local-state-politics-stories","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-austin","tag-blessing-iwuchukwu","tag-ctv","tag-dallas","tag-el-paso","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365408","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=365408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}