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WASHINGTON — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff heads to Texas subsequent week to headline a San Antonio rally Monday for Texas Democrats.
Emhoff may even converse at a fundraising reception in San Antonio on Monday and at a fundraiser in Austin on Tuesday.
The San Antonio rally might be for Texas Democrats’ coordinated marketing campaign, dubbed “Texas Offense,” led by Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Colin Allred. A number of distinguished Texas Democrats may even converse on the rally, together with U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, former Housing and City Improvement Secretary Julián Castro, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar. Comic Cristela Alonzo and Gen-Z activist Olivia Julianna may even be current, in addition to state Home Democratic candidates Kristian Carranza and Laurel Jordan Swift.
The rally will concentrate on the “Freedom to Vote.” The town attracted nationwide consideration after state investigators underneath Lawyer Basic Ken Paxton searched the properties of a number of Latino political organizers, together with in Bexar County, as a part of a probe into alleged voter fraud. Among the many topics of the searches had been Cecilia Castellano, a Democratic candidate for state consultant in a aggressive district, and members of Texas LULAC, a non-partisan Hispanic civil rights group.
LULAC and Texas Democrats have decried the searches as voter intimidation, calling on the U.S. Justice Division to analyze Paxton.
Emhoff’s look on the rally can be an indication of assist from the presidential marketing campaign for Texas Democrats, who’ve bemoaned being largely left off the map within the presidential race. Vice President Kamala Harris’s marketing campaign should goal the swing states wanted to achieve a majority within the Electoral Faculty and decided Texas didn’t make the cutoff.
Nonetheless, the presidential ticket has made appearances within the state, together with July visits by Harris to Houston and Dallas, the place she spoke at conferences of traditionally Black sororities. President Joe Biden additionally spoke in Austin at an occasion commemorating the Civil Rights Act in July after dropping out of the presidential race. Harris, Biden and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the vice presidential candidate, have all visited Texas to fundraise this cycle.
Texas Democrats launched their coordinated marketing campaign in July to bundle sources from the Senate race down poll. It’s the primary coordinated marketing campaign led by a Democratic Senate candidate since Republicans took management of the state.
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