Beto O'Rourke isn't running for Senate again, and Democrats who have unusually high hopes for Texas in 2020 are facing an unsettled landscape.
In this Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019 photo, Democrat Royce West, left, a Texas state senator who is running for U.S. Senate in Texas, talks with local party organizer Jimmy Alan Hall after a campaign stop in San Marcos, Texas. West is one of a dozen Democrats in Texas running to challenge Republican incumbent John Cornyn in 2020.
Nationally, Democrats see winning Texas as an essential step toward finally taking and keeping control of the Senate, but in 2020 the party's chances instead may depend on races in Arizona, Colorado and Maine. Texas isn't alone. In Georgia, where the GOP also got a scare in 2018, Democrats are also sorting out their candidates. The campaign arm of Senate Democrats haven't made endorsements in either state or weighed in on the field.
“It's very frightening to see someone as successful as Beto coming into the picture, getting so close to winning, and then we're in 2020 and we have another Senate cycle, but no one is getting the energy because there is so many candidates,” said Newman, 22, who is now president of the college Democrats at Texas State.
Some Republicans are also puzzled. Brendan Steinhauser, who ran Cornyn's last reelection campaign in 2014, lives around liberal Austin and said he would have expected to see more yard signs or events by now. “I think people are preoccupied with the impeachment,” West said. “That's what I think it is. I think once that is resolved, then we'll see more and more people paying attention to these races.”
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