DALLAS \u2014 While Republicans kicked off their midterm convention inside the American Airlines Center, Texas Democrats and one of the party\u2019s biggest names came together across the street to send a message of their own to voters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis bizarre Republican midterm convention here can\u2019t paper over the fact that Republicans have done nothing to earn your vote,\u201d said Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.<\/p>\n
Pritzker joined Democratic leaders from Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston to highlight the party\u2019s policies and question the motivations of the Republican convention.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDallas County is a solidly blue county,\u201d said Dallas County Democratic Party Chair Kardal Coleman. \u201cThey have decided to hold a convention in a county they cannot win.\u201d<\/p>\n
The speakers called out the quickly thrown together convention as being mostly focused on President Donald Trump at a time when many Americans are struggling to deal with high inflation and deteriorating economic conditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cStruggling to pay for gas, struggling to pay for groceries, struggling to keep a job,\u201d said Houston City Controller Chris Hollins. \u201cAnd all the while, you have Republicans, instead of working to solve those problems, coming to Dallas to throw a party. Coming to pop champagne with the billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n
Democrats also reminded voters of a recent Republican-led move by Tarrant County leaders to cut dozens of polling places, many of which the Democrats said are in blue-leaning areas around Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
\u201cTook away 92 polling places,\u201d said Alisa Simmons, candidate for Tarrant County Judge. \u201cAre we going to keep centering our politics around one man, or are we going to center government around the people it\u2019s supposed to serve?\u201d<\/p>\n
Pritzker said Democrats will remain focused on the November midterm elections and on highlighting their candidates\u2019 plans to get the nation, they feel, back on track.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey chose the wrong place to hold this clown show of theirs,\u201d said Pritzker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 While Republicans kicked off their midterm convention inside the American Airlines Center, Texas Democrats and one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1658,3645,132,21403,102,138,223,287,82,27,29,28,1569,835],"class_list":["post-431305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-national-politics","tag-austin","tag-brian-scott","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-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431305","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=431305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}