POLITICS/TEXAS: “Texas voters on Tuesday [3-6-18] will kick off a 2018 midterm primary season that is teeming with candidates, including an unprecedented number of Democrats seeking to regain control of Congress and create a check on President Donald Trump’s White House.
History may be on the party’s side—the president’s party has lost seats in 35 out of the 38 midterm elections since the end of the Civil War, according to Cook Political Report. When the president’s approval rating is under 50%, as Mr. Trump’s is, the party in control of the White House has lost an average of 40 House seats in midterm elections.
Democrats need a net gain of 24 seats to recapture the House majority, and they need to capture two Republican-held posts to regain control of the Senate… Three of those so-called Clinton districts are in Texas, sparking Democrats’ hopes that they could flip seats held by GOP Reps. Pete Sessions of Dallas, John Culberson of Houston and Will Hurd of San Antonio. The party is also targeting the open seat being vacated by Republican Rep. Lamar Smith in the San Antonio and Austin areas.
Those incumbents are just the starting point for Democrats. For the first time in 25 years, the party has at least one candidate running in all of the state’s 36 congressional districts.”
-Natalie Andrews, “Democrats Launch 2018 Midterm Primary Campaign With Packed Texas Contests,” The Wall Street Journal online, Mar. 5, 2018 05:30am