CORPUS CHRISTI — The Texas Democrats assembled for their three-day convention that ended Saturday in this Coastal Bend city sought to redefine the meaning of the politics of inclusion.
They embraced a platform that aggressively reached out to rural Texans, blue-color laborers, small business owners and military veterans, while acknowledging more must be done to protect the nation’s southern border and the property of landowners who live and work near the Rio Grande. Those issues can no longer be ceded to the Republicans, several delegates, candidate and officeholders said, especially in an economy that they say promotes the consolidation of wealth while millions of Texas struggle to make ends meet.
Here are the key takeaways:
Looking to lure Republican voters
In their effort to finally break a losing streak in statewide elections stretching to the mid-1990s, Democrats pledged to expand their party’s base without turning their backs on the progressive causes and the marginalized communities that have long defined the modern Texas Democratic Party…