Democrats are playing to their base, and risk overplaying their hand, by demonizing election bills stalled now in the Texas Legislature.
The political drama around House Bill 3 and Senate Bill 1 is no worse than productions Republicans have been staging about the border crisis, for example, or election fraud, for that matter, but it’s not any better either.
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