Wendy Davis: "The Midterms Were a Wake-up Call for Republican Leaders in Texas"
On Tuesday afternoon, toward the end of recording an episode of the National Podcast of Texas, former state senator Wendy Davis detailed a strategy meeting she’d had a few days earlier with Rep. Joaquín Castro. Davis says she encouraged the Democratic congressman from San Antonio to challenge Republican incumbent John Cornyn in the 2020 U.S. Senate race, but she also confirmed that she’s considering a run herself, if Castro chooses not to seek the seat.
“I told him I will do everything I can to share resources and information, raise money, and help campaign for him if he decides to run, and I hope that he will,” says Davis, who ran for governor in 2014, losing to then-attorney general Greg Abbott. “I don’t know yet what his decision will be. And he’s being very thoughtful, of course, about coming to that decision.”
While she monitors the Senate race, Davis’s primary political focus continues to be Deeds Not Words, an advocacy organization she founded in 2016 to encourage young women to participate in politics through organizing, policy-making, and voting. The nonprofit’s missions include ending campus sexual assault, addressing Texas’s rape kit backlog, and supporting women’s reproductive rights. Davis believes that the success of women candidates in the 2018 midterms and the close race Beto O’Rourke ran against Sen. Ted Cruz might spur Republicans in the Texas legislature to be more open to compromises on the issues at the top of her organization’s agenda.
“Republicans are starting to understand that women are voting in much greater percentages than we had been before,” Davis says. “The 2018 midterm was certainly a wakeup call for them. Speaker Bonnen, speaking to a group not long ago, was talking about the fact that Republicans need to fix the problem that they have with women. So I’m hoping, if everyone is coming to work every day in the legislature right now understanding that that’s something they need to do, we’re going to see more bipartisanship.”
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so I can see my brother's head explode. 
I will give him a small bit of credit for recognizing reality -- he finally removed the Trump bumper sticker from his truck because it could attract negative attention.
