Beto O’Rourke and his band of volunteers are entering the next phase of their effort to help Democrats win the Texas House.
Members of the political action committee, Powered by People, have met their goal of contacting more than 350,000 Democrats who recently moved to Texas but have not registered to vote here. It’s part of a broader plan to try to register about 1.4 million new residents who voted for Democrats in their former states.
They identified the new residents by examining the change of address forms and matching them with voter records from their home states.
O’Rourke, the former El Paso congress member and Democratic presidential candidate, says getting 500,000 of those new Texans to vote for Democratic candidates in November would enhance the chances of Democrats winning the House — and former Vice President Joe Biden defeating President Donald Trump.
“Now it’s time for voter contact calling,” O’Rourke told The Dallas Morning News. “We’re calling into those districts and confirming that they will be voting for the Democratic nominee.”
That’s the next phase of the Powered by People approach. It involves reaching out to voters in House districts targeted by Democrats, including nine districts that O’Rourke won in 2018 when he was narrowly defeated in a dramatic Senate contest against Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.
Many of those districts are in North Texas.
Overall, Texas Democrats have targeted 22 House districts in 2020. They need to pick up nine seats to win the Texas House, a chamber Republicans have controlled since 2003.
“We see our role as helping all these great Democratic candidates,” O’Rourke said. “The big value we provide is the extraordinary network of volunteers.”
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