On that front, the Senate race in Texas may be a test of how engaged those voters will be beyond the presidential race, said Varun Nikore, president of AAPI Victory Fund, a super PAC focused on mobilizing Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Hegar’s campaign says it is well aware of the work to be done.

Steve Munisteri is headed home to help Texas' senior U.S. senator in his 2020 re-election bid.

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“Hegar desperately needs record turnout by Black and Hispanic voters if she wants to have a shot,” said Matthew Hayes, a political scientist at Rice University.

Senator Cornyn is a strong leader with a proven record of accomplishments.

“While folks generally may be excited, and a lot of this excitement has to do with being anti-Trump, that is not enough. Receive the latest political news delivered every Tuesday and Thursday from reporters in Austin, Dallas and Washington.

He said her campaign is also working to get on Black radio stations in the next week or two, if not sooner. Jan. 22, 201912 AM. Even if Cornyn matches the 48 percent of the Latino vote that he won in 2014, “that might not be enough to carry him,” she said.

He is widely expected to coast to his party's nomination, but it is unclear which Democrat he could face in a general election. “It could be MJ Hegar’s constituency to lose, but she still has to put in the effort — and Cornyn still has to put in the effort, if he is hoping to at least quell the number of AAPIs who may have conservative ideals but want to vote against the president.”.

Hegar has hired staff to oversee outreach to Black and Latino voters — something Cornyn’s campaign has yet to do as it has focused so far on regional outreach.

Perhaps it goes without saying — but producing quality journalism isn't cheap. This week Hegar announced she raised $1.1 million during the same period and has $1 million in the bank. Cornyn’s remark blaming Chinese “cultural practices” for the coronavirus outbreak is another potential liability.

“These are not a set of issues and concerns he has a ton of experience and practice listening to and mobilizing into legislative action. His ability to see a goal and work towards it without distraction is second to none. Texas Republicans elected Munisteri as their party chairman in June 2010. As Cornyn seeks his fourth term in the Senate, early polling indicates he is down again among minority voters — and this time his opponent, Democrat MJ Hegar, has plans to invest heavily in outreach to Black and Latino voters including targeted advertising, with spots on Black radio stations in the coming weeks.

Blank said that even as Cornyn has made moves in the Senate that may appeal to minority voters, he still has made the effort more difficult for himself.
It's not really his turf,” Blank said.

He is wrapping up his tenure in the Trump White House as deputy assistant to the president and deputy director for the Office of Public Liaison — positions he's held since March 2017. Before The News, he was a reporter at The Kansas City Star and The Chicago Defender. “While the D.C. insiders talk themselves in circles on impeachment, Texans are noticing the massive influx of liberal money — from the DSCC meddling in the Senate race to hundreds of thousands pouring into state legislative races,” said John Jackson, Cornyn’s campaign manager, in a news release. He said the group is all in on Hegar, and that Hegar has “done everything in a short period of time I would expect a candidate to do to go all out to reach out to the African American community.”. Cornyn spent the next several months not worrying about the Democrat running against him — who he easily defeated — but instead trying to diversify his base, running ads on TV and radio in five different languages, sending campaign staff to naturalization ceremonies, Holi festivals and more. By signing up you agree to our privacy policy, Stand with us in our mission to discover and uncover the story of North Texas.

Paid for by Texans for Senator John Cornyn, Inc. © 2020 Texans for Senator John Cornyn, Inc. Three million of them were minorities, including, the party claims, every registered Black voter in the state. The group had accused the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, of trying to “undercut” West’s campaign by telling donors not to give to the longtime Dallas senator, who hoped to be the state’s first Black U.S. senator.

“There’s no question that COVID-19 has turned traditional campaigning on its head,” John Jackson, Cornyn’s campaign manager, said in statement released Wednesday with the new fundraising numbers. And she has made attacking Cornyn for “xenophobic” and “bigoted” comments — such as wrongly blaming Chinese “cultural practices” for the coronavirus outbreak — a central part of her campaign, hoping to diminish his standing among Asian-American voters, a rapidly growing and increasingly important voting bloc, especially in the suburbs. All rights reserved.

Gonzalez-Gorman said many of the issues that Hegar has made central to her campaign — especially expanding access to health care — are issues that will resonate with Latinos, who have been among the hardest hit by the coronavirus.

CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. As a nonprofit newsroom, we rely on members to help keep our stories free and our events open to the public. "It's no secret national Democrats will again target our state and spend millions to wipe out conservatives in Texas," Cornyn said in a statement. “I gained a great deal of respect for Steve when he successfully led our Party to new heights as chairman of the RPT and have been proud to work with him in Washington as he’s served President Trump in the White House. WASHINGTON — As U.S. Sen. John Cornyn launched his last re-election campaign, his campaign manager, Brendan Steinhauser, remembers the … “MJ is no Beto,” Jackson, said, referring to …

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Do you value our journalism? “Cornyn has to continue to appeal as much as he and the Republican Party can to voters of color in Texas — but it’s going to be increasingly hard as he is one of the presidents’ most consistent defenders.”. Steve Munisteri will begin work Feb. 9 as a senior adviser to U.S. Sen. John Cornyn's burgeoning re-election campaign.

Dan Patrick, erasing any doubt he would have their backing in the primary. Cornyn announced Tuesday his campaign manager will be John Jackson, who led Abbott's successful re-election bid last year, an early hire that suggests the state's senior senator is not taking 2020 for granted. Robinson said he’s talked to her a handful of times since and that anytime he gives someone her cell phone number, within a day or two they have talked to her.

Hegar is the only contender to release her fundraising totals, which are required to be filed with the Federal Elections Commission by Friday.

I am excited to return to my home state to help an indispensable voice for a stronger America continue to serve hardworking Texas families,” Munisteri continued. Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Democrat MJ Hegar. There are now just under 800,000 eligible Asian American voters in Texas — a group that grew by 46 percent from 2012 to 2018, compared with a 12-percent rise in the statewide eligible voting population, according to data from APIA Vote. Cornyn has made a number of moves since the midterms to build re-election support. As a nonprofit newsroom, we rely on members to help keep our stories free and our events open to the public. He previously covered federal education policy and national education issues at POLITICO, and before that covered higher education at the Chronicle and K-12 education at the Austin American-Statesman.

John Cornyn raised over $2.7 million in last year’s fourth quarter and has stockpiled over $12 million for his 2020 reelection bid. TEXAS TAKE: Get political headlines from across the state sent directly to your inbox, “We’re not backing away,” said Travis Considine, a spokesman for the campaign. In 2018 former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of El Paso pushed Cruz to the limit, losing by only 2.6 percentage points. Democratic challenger MJ Hegar says that hand is driving Texas toward a cliff. This will be a key battlefield in the race, said Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman, a political scientist at UT-RGV.

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You still need to connect a lot of dots,” Nikore said. Cornyn has also been a leading GOP voice for the Senate to pass a bill reviving the popular Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and he’s thrown his support behind sending stimulus checks to families with mixed immigration status, among other things. "His strong support from President Trump and fellow conservative leaders in Texas speaks louder than one scorecard from the Swamp," said Cornyn campaign manager John Jackson. Contributor Total Individuals PACs; Apollo Global Management: $112,950: $110,450

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The Asian American voting population in Texas is growing at a much faster clip than those of other groups.

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He has also made recent moves in the Senate that may appeal to minority voters — successfully pushing legislation to create an Emancipation Trail between Galveston and Houston and to establish a National American Latino Museum in D.C., as well as trying in vain to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has tapped a former top operative for Gov. ... Cornyn’s campaign manager, in a news release. In addition to the announcement of John Jackson as Campaign Manager last week, today’s announcement also comes on the heels of endorsements by Senator Ted Cruz and Lt.

Two recent trips to the Rio Grande Valley illustrate the early work both campaigns say they plan to put in. While polls show Cornyn is not as well-known to most Texans as Sen. Ted Cruz, his fundraising, at the moment, gives him an advantage over the Democrats looking to replace him.

His campaign sent an email to local media touting the senator’s support for beefing up border security, boosting trade with Mexico, extending protections for young people brought to the country illegally and more.
In December, he announced endorsements from Cruz and Lt. Gov.