Second gentleman Doug Emhoff has been in Texas campaigning and fundraising for the Democratic ticket this week. He has been joined by former congressman Beto O’Rourke, and on Friday, Emhoff posted some photographs from music legend Willie Nelson’s house at Luck Ranch.
The nation music icon endorsed O’Rourke in his unsuccessful marketing campaign towards cowardly frequent flier Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018. Nelson has additionally endorsed Cruz’s opponent Colin Allred on this 12 months’s election, and together with nation singer Margo Worth, has been vocal in his help this 12 months for the Harris marketing campaign in addition to different downballot Democrats.
Emhoff has been campaigning by red-states throughout the nation for the previous two weeks, hitting Florida, Mississippi, and now Texas. O’Rourke joined Emhoff in the course of the Texas leg of the tour as a part of his political group Powered by Folks, whose focus is on registering voters within the Lone Star State.
The successes seen by Democrats in fundraising since Vice President Kamala Harris turned the get together’s presidential candidate led the Democratic Nationwide Committee to announce on Friday that they’re starting an initiative to provide all 50 states and territories funding, as a way to assist construct out infrastructure and downballot candidates.
“From the school board to the White House, the DNC is doing the work to elect Democrats to office at all levels of government,” DNC chair Jaime Harrison stated in a press release. “We are the only committee responsible for building Democratic infrastructure to win elections across the map.”
Emhoff and the Harris marketing campaign have their work minimize out for them as Donald Trump has been capable of preserve round a 5-point lead in polling in Texas.
