The party faces internal tension over the Israel-Hamas war and Biden’s new immigration policy heading into November.
We’re testing using AI-powered tools to provide an audio version of this story. While this audio recording is machine-generated, the story was written by human journalists.But those pitfalls got only passing attention during the Texas Democratic Party ’s three-day convention in El Paso, where party leaders and a few thousand rank-and-file activists gathered to mobilize behind their nominees and hone their pitch for November.
“No one is more self-serving, more disconnected from Texans’ needs,” Allred said, calling the state’s junior senator"the ultimate 'me guy.'" “What I'm really worried about, and this relates to my candidacy, is that our party is not going to be unified there. There's a lot of fear right now. There's a lot of division over the Middle East,” Albert said, pitching himself as an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Amid a stream of anti-Trump rhetoric and talk of Republican “extremism,” Escobar told the convention crowd that Democrats can’t just focus on the GOP’s policies.
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