Essay: Why Beto O'Rourke lost
Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, arrives to speak during an election night rally in McAllen, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. Abbott beat Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke to win re-election for a third term as governor of Texas, signaling voters approved of his hardline conservative views.
For many long-suffering Texas Democrats, Beto appeared to potentially be the messiah they had been waiting for to lead them to the promised land after more than two decades in the opposition wilderness. Beto lost for four principal reasons. Third, to be successful this year Beto needed members of Generation Z and younger Millennials who, in a mid-October University of Houston Hobby Schoolsupported Beto over Abbott by a more than two to one margin) and African Americans to turn out in record numbers. Instead, the opposite occurred with the participation of those under 30 down by a fourth and African American turnout down by a fifth compared to 2018.
Along with the gubernatorial contest, Democrats believed that their best prospect of a statewide victory in 2022 was in the attorney general race, with Rochelle Garza pitted against incumbent Attorney General Ken Paxton. Garza’s campaign strategy consisted of two main tactics. First, energize women , Latinos and younger voters to turn out in large numbers.
In the lieutenant governor election Democrat Mike Collier ran as a middle of the road former Republican turned Democrat, with moderate positions on a wide range of policies and the support of centrist Republicans such as the county judge of Tarrant County Glen Whitley, state senator Kel Seliger, and state representative Lyle Larson .
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