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Democrats have not won a statewide election in Texas since 1994.
From 2002 to 2020, predictions that Texas will “turn blue” and elect a Democrat statewide in either the presidential, gubernatorial, or U.S. Senate race were made by authors John Judis and Ruy Teixeira in their book, The Emerging Democratic Majority, as well as former Vermont governor and Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, Texas Democratic Party chairman Gilberto Hinojosa, and Texas congressman Joaquin Castro, along with many journalists. That has not come to pass.
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The closest any Democrat has come to winning a statewide race was Beto O’Rourke in 2018, with 48.3 percent, against incumbent GOP senator Ted........