Kamala Harris to Visit a Critical County in First Texas Visit
Style Magazine Newswire | 3/22/2019, 10:10 a.m.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is making her first campaign trip to Texas this week, heading straight to a county Republicans are worried about protecting in 2020. The California senator plans to meet with Tarrant County Democrats in Grapevine Friday evening for a community conversation, her campaign announced Tuesday. Tarrant County, one of nation’s largest urban, conservative strongholds, has supported every GOP presidential nominee in recent history. But President Donald Trump only won 52 percent of the vote there in 2016, and Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who is now running for president, narrowly carried the county in the 2018 U.S. Senate election. Republicans already fear attention from White House hopefuls like Harris could fuel higher Democratic turnout in down-ballot races in 2020 in an area of the state that is rapidly changing demographically.
