TX-21: For Wendy Davis and Chip Roy, campaign styles point to divergent views of a pandemic
BUDA — Last Sunday, Wendy Davis arrived by herself at the Gazebo in downtown Buda, a 22-minute drive from her home in Clarksville, with a carful of blue campaign lawn signs to give away.
It was a notable if unheralded occasion — the first in-person campaign event of any sort for U.S. House candidate Davis since March, with no others scheduled. For two hours, she joined Democratic state Rep. Erin Zwiener of Driftwood in distributing signs for their respective campaigns to a steady trickle of supporters who had gotten word of the occasion.
“This isn’t what I expected, a couple of months ahead of the election. We’d normally be out knocking doors for months now,” Davis, wearing a straw hat and National Democratic Party face mask, told Michael Kramm, an aspiring artist, who picked up signs for the lawns on either side of his corner lot in Buda. “And I still grapple with it ... would it be OK?”
“I think we’re definitely going to do (campaign literature) drops, but we’re probably not going to do classic door-knocking because we don’t want our volunteers to feel unsafe, and we don’t want people to feel unsafe if we knock on their door,” Davis said.
This is the 21st Congressional District, one of the most prized, and, in the less than two months remaining before the Nov. 3 election, sure to be one of the most fought-over pieces of political property in the nation.
Now represented by freshman Republican Rep. Chip Roy, who lives just outside Austin in Hays County, the seat is, political forecasters agree, a toss-up.
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