Democrats, Texas and California
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In Trump’s redistricting push, Democrats find an aggressive identity and progressives are on board
Democrats have struggled to find effective ways to oppose President Donald Trump, and even some Democratic voters describe the party as weak.
Proposed new congressional maps in California could help Democrats flip five Republican seats and bolster around five Democratic incumbents in toss-up districts.
If those conditions are met, the Texas House Democratic Caucus said Democratic lawmakers will return to the Texas House.
But in some of the nation’s biggest Senate races, Democrats are relying on an old strategy of recruiting—and then clearing the field for—long-serving party leaders with whom voters are already familiar.
California Democrats released proposed congressional redistricting maps as their fight with Trump and Texas escalates.
After leaving the state to block the G.O.P. from redrawing the state’s congressional maps, Democratic lawmakers are keeping the pressure on from afar.
Senate Democrats are banking on familiar, older figures in at least three critical races next year, bucking the tide of momentum toward fresh candidates from the next generation.
Lawmakers are now framing their ability to prevent new maps from passing during one special legislative session as a victory. But Republicans are poised to call another.
Democratic mayors say they're successfully lowering crime, even as President Trump attacks their cities as dangerous and out of control.
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