Democrats and Republicans nationwide are going all in on these Fort Worth area races BY TESSA WEINBE
This election season is historically strange in Tarrant County, and not just because of the pandemic.
Democrats have their sights on picking up five Republican-held House seats that are consistently on national groups’ target lists — and one of the party’s favorite sons, former Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, is working the Tarrant County phone banks.
Republicans, meanwhile, are marshaling grassroots support to help with campaigning in the Fort Worth area and its surrounding suburbs, many of which were once solidly Republican red but today are believed to be at least moderately purple, if not Democratic blue.
resident Trump’s tour bus recently rolled into Bedford for a campaign stop, where the president’s surrogates simultaneously downplayed any concerns about losing some of the races in Tarrant County while also calling for supporters to begin going door-to-door.
Long seen as a bellwether county that mirrors the state’s voting patterns, it remains to be seen if Tarrant County will be a deciding factor for the 2020 election. And the stakes are high with Democrats targeting five House seats in Tarrant County, as part of their effort to regain control of the Texas House and have a greater say in redrawing political boundaries for the next decade.
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