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Houston Public Media: Will Democrats Engage Texas Latino Voters

DCCC: One word, “yes”

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Will Democrats Engage Texas Latino Voters?
By Elizabeth Trovall
Houston Public Media

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2018/08/16/300471/will-democrats-engage-texas-latino-voters/

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At the event, Pelosi pointed to the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) as evidence of the party’s commitment to outreach.

“Our chairman of our committee is Latino, Ben Ray Luján from New Mexico, and he has made it a priority in terms of the right thing to do from the start of his chairmanship to do outreach into the Latino community,” said Pelosi.

“We have to have strong Latino participation,” she said, touting unprecedented Latino outreach by the committee.

“There’s never enough, but this is the most anybody has seen in terms of what we’re doing in the party and what we are doing with our affiliate groups outside,” said Pelosi.

In a written statement, DCCC Hispanic Media Director Javier Gamboa outlined six battleground districts for Democrats in Texas with a 10 percent or higher Hispanic electorate: TX-02, TX-07, TX-21, TX-23, TX-31 and TX-32.

“Latino voters will be key for Democrats to win in Texas’ most competitive races, like Rep. John Culberson’s district,” Gamboa said, “The DCCC does not take a single voter or community for granted, and that’s why we’re investing an unprecedented amount of resources to connect with and turn out diverse voters across the country for Democrats this November.”

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