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Going where the fight is
Texas politicians are increasingly being dispatched to the front lines of the presidential race.
While neither campaign is spending much time in Texas down the stretch — except to fundraise — both have been calling on key leaders in Houston, San Antonio and beyond to help them in other states.
"I'm just trying to help any way I can," U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, said as she prepared to head to Nevada on Wednesday to campaign for Harris.
She's just the latest Texan to hit Nevada to campaign. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt, both Houston Republicans, were there on Friday to campaign with former President Donald Trump at a rally. The next day, Hunt was a featured speaker in California for another Trump rally.
"This man literally took a bullet for this country," Hunt said to applause as he referenced the assassination attempt of Trump in July.
Meanwhile, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, who was featured during the Democratic National Convention in August, has also been hitting the road for Harris. Earlier this month, she was in Tuscon, Ariz., to help rally campaign volunteers. Early voting in Arizona is already underway. San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg is expected to travel there and to Nevada this weekend for campaign stops.
But it's not just the presidential race getting Texans on the road. Cornyn, who is angling for a key leadership position in the U.S. Senate, has been traveling to campaign with other GOP Senate candidates in places like Ohio and Pennsylvania in hopes Republicans can retake the majority this fall.
Last week, Cornyn hosted fundraisers in Dallas and Houston that pulled in close to $1 million to help Republican Senate candidates in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Montana.
Jeremy Wallace, Texas politics reporter |
Who's up, who's down
Up: Mike Miles.
An investigation into alleged misuse of state funds by the Texas Education Agency concluded Third Future Schools Texas — a Colorado-based charter school network founded by Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles — did not violate any Texas laws. The investigation also found "no evidence" of any wrongdoing by Third Future Schools or Miles, who was not one of the subjects of the TEA's investigation.
Down: Free Trade.
Remember when the Republican Party was firmly supporting free trade to expand global markets? That has certainly changed given what Donald Trump said in an interview in which he vowed to pursue higher tariffs on a range of imports. "To me the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff. It's my favorite word," he said.
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What else is going on in Texas
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Pick of the day
We've talked about this race before in the Texas Take, but Isaac Yu has a deeper look at this battle in South Texas where U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz is seeking to win re-election against Democrat Michelle Vallejo. This is considered the most competitive Congressional race in all of Texas.
What else I'm reading
I joined MSNBC's Chris Jansing on Tuesday to preview the senate debate between Ted Cruz and Colin Allred and explain why the race is so close in Texas. NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ryan Nobles and former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro joined me on the segment here.
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