Email, Manny Garcia, executive director, Texas Democratic Party, Aug. 25, 2016

2:24 p.m.

Please attribute the following to Texas Democratic Party Deputy Executive Director Manny Garcia:

“Texas’ diverse new majority has a number of ideological perspectives, conservative,
liberal, and moderate. In fact, a recent University of Texas Texas Politics
Project poll asks Texans where they consider themselves on the ideological
scale, 39% said in the middle.

“Texas Democrats are glad to welcome all Texans to our big tent party.

“Now, if "conservative" is code for "Republican" then Sean Hannity simply doesn’t know Texas.
Texas' diverse new majority consists of many communities that historically
support the Democratic Party. It only takes a simple look at Dallas, Houston,
Austin, the Rio Grande Valley, El Paso, and San Antonio to see that Democrats
in local partisan and nonpartisan offices are delivering solutions for Texas
families every single day.”

(Source: https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/sites/texaspolitics.utexas.edu/files/201606_poll_uttt_topline_final.pdf
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