Flipping the Texas House: Inside Democrats' effort to turn a red state blue
A little more than two months after he dropped out of the race for president, Beto O'Rourke drove 700 miles from his home in El Paso to this city in the vast suburbs west of Houston.
He parked his pickup truck on a residential street on a brisk Saturday morning and started knocking on doors.
Nobody answered at the first home, so he scribbled a note on a campaign flyer and left it on the door. At the next house, a woman cracked open her door just wide enough to grab a brochure from O'Rourke's hand and then made it clear that she wasn't interested in discussing politics. A few houses down, a man answered in his bathrobe.
"Oh, my God, it's Beto O'Rourke," he shouted.
"Yes, sir," O'Rourke said before explaining that he was out campaigning for Eliz Markowitz, a Democrat running for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives in a special election this month. "I was coming by to see if we could count on your vote in this election."
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