By Renzo Downey, The Texas Tribune
For many who did a doubletake watching state Rep. Caroline Harris Davila’s marketing campaign advert this weekend, no, these usually are not the Davila’s youngsters.
The Spherical Rock Republican on Friday launched an advert about defending youngsters and enhancing faculty lunches, ending with Harris Davila and her husband, Darrell Davila, posing with 4 kids. Nonetheless, the children are constituents.
Within the advert, Harris Davila says she’s defending “our future,” and she or he’s seen patting the smallest of 4 youngsters on the again whereas smiling and speaking with the opposite three.
Within the ultimate shot, she picks up that boy whereas Darrell Davila places his arm across the second-smallest boy, smiling for the digicam.
The idyllic household shot puzzled Capitol watchers who had been unaware of that Harris Davila nor Davila, the chief of workers to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, had kids.
Reaching out on behalf of the Harris Davila marketing campaign, marketing consultant Jordan Berry instructed The Blast that the children and lady featured earlier within the advert are constituents.
The Davilas married a bit of over a 12 months in the past and, to be clear, don’t have any youngsters collectively or from earlier than their union. Harris Davila is operating for her first reelection, dealing with Democrat Jennie Birkholz in Texas Home District 52.
Though the freshman received by 12 factors in 2022, she and Texas Republicans are taking her race significantly. Gov. Greg Abbott will be a part of her in Hutto on Wednesday for a get-out-the-vote occasion. All of the whereas, she’s been knocking on doorways, together with with the assistance of Republican colleagues from throughout the state.
The Harris Davila marketing campaign has additionally up to date its web site for the ultimate stretch. As not too long ago as Oct. 2, her marketing campaign listed “pro-life” because the second from the highest of its marketing campaign points, in line with web archives. Now, the marketing campaign doesn’t listing “pro-life” as one among its points.
Nonetheless, her pre-Oct. 2 marketing campaign points part reads extra like a holdover from her 2022 marketing campaign, a resume of her work from her time as a coverage staffer to state Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola. The web page stated Harris Davila “advised one of the most conservative senators in Texas on victories,” together with “Passed the Heartbeat Act, the strongest Pro-Life law in America, saving thousands of lives.” Hughes sponsored that invoice in 2021.
HD-52, which covers a 3rd of Williamson County residents, is altering rapidly.
“It is one of, if not the fastest growing districts in the state,” information and analysis marketing consultant Derek Ryan instructed The Blast. In line with Ryan’s most up-to-date information, there are 165,000 registered voters within the district, up from 126,000 in 2020. Ryan says the rise makes it the quickest rising Home district within the state, each in uncooked voters and on a share foundation. The district can also be dwelling to a whole lot of households. In line with U.S. Census Bureau estimates from 2022, greater than half of the households have three or extra folks.
However as for the advert, the scenario is paying homage to the marketing campaign media from Virginia congressional candidate Derrick Anderson, who posted content material with a pal’s spouse and three daughters who critics say he tried to cross off as his circle of relatives.
