CBS News: “On Monday the Biden campaign announced a slate of staff hires aimed at flipping the historically conservative Lone Star state, last won by a Democratic presidential candidate in 1976 by Jimmy Carter. The Biden campaign insists its push for the state’s 38 Electoral College votes is real.”
“‘We are quite serious about putting [Texas] in play,’ Jenn Ridder, the campaign’s national states director, told CBS News. ‘Increasingly we are seeing polls that show that there is real opportunity there for us.’ The CBS News Battleground Tracker in mid-July showed Biden just one point behind President Trump. Six Texas Democratic operatives have already been hired, led by state director Rebecca Acuña, who was raised in Laredo and has worked in various roles in state and congressional politics.”