November 12, 2020
Your Weekly News from the Collin County Democratic Party
Congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. We made history for women in America. “Madam Vice President” is no longer a fictional character." Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Texas is still red, but its growing blue spine could soon prove
'insurmountable' for Republicans.
Texas remains a red state, but the 2020 presidential election showed again that there is a blue spine running through it. And it’s growing......

Democrats now hold 13 seats in the Texas Senate, enough to block any bills from making it to the floor of the Senate for a vote.

DECIPHERING DATA
Several precincts that turned blue in the presidential race switched back to red in the congressional race.

Biden benefited from the chaos on the other side of the ticket and racked up a sizeable 35,000 more votes in the county than US Senate candidate MJ Hegar. This suggests roughly 7% of Republicans voted for him and then switched back to voting straight Republican in down-ballot races.
While Democrats did not flip Collin County as we hoped,
we did make some impressive gains.

From 2016 to 2020 we increased the presidential vote from 39% to 47% (227,868), an impressive 8% gain in just four years.
In 2016, Trump got 55% of the vote, or 200,395 to Clinton’s 139,837.
What is clear is that the more urban cities (Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Allen, Richardson) continue to trend blue in our direction. This will create more competitive races for Democratic candidates moving forward.
The CD3 race may be a more accurate barometer of where Democrats are in the county rather than the Biden numbers.

Congressional District 3 (CD3), which featured Democrat Lulu Seikaly against Republican Incumbent Van Taylor, increased from 39% to 43% in the same time period.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
THE NEXT BIG THING
FLIPPING THE TWO GEORGIA SENATE SEATS
Join the volunteer effort to elect Jon Ossoff to the US Senate!
Run Your Ossoff Daily Phone Banks. Right now phone banking is the best way to connect with voters and get them to the polls. Help us get the word out to voters across Georgia about the upcoming election by phone banking with the Jon Ossoff Team. Sign Up Link: here
Call Georgia Voters
Join Team Warnock to Phonebank Georgia Voters!
Please join the zoom call by clicking the "Join Event" blue button in your confirmation email to get the current script and login information

Link: here
Phone Bank Training
Join members of the Jon Ossoff for Senate Field Team for virtual office hours.

We're here to answer your questions, introduce you to volunteer opportunities, train you in phone banking, and chat about anything you'd like. We'll be on from 6:00pm-7:00pm EST Monday-Friday and 1:00pm-2:00pm EST on Saturday and Sunday.

Link: here
YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THIS EVENT
This Event is available to all Democrats. Join us in celebrating Democrat wins and breaking down election results with former Collin County Election Judge & Precinct Chair Michael D. Handley. This meeting will be VIRTUAL over Zoom.

Register now and you’ll be emailed a link to our Zoom before the meeting on the 19th.
NOTE: You MUST register via Mobilize link (below) to be join the meeting.
Date: Thursday November 19
Time: 7:00 PM
Link: here
Please Note: If this event is at max capacity. Reach Out: here