How 2020 may reconfigure politics in the Southwest

For years, the Southwest shimmered like a mirage to Democrats thirsting for a political breakthrough in the desert.

Since 2004, steady gains have allowed them to establish a clear upper hand in New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada. But, until recently, they had been frustrated by their inability to extend those gains to the region’s two biggest electoral prizes: Arizona and especially Texas.

The Republican hold on even those states, though, demonstrably loosened in 2018, and now Democrats appear poised for a potentially historic breakthrough across all of the region’s battlefields next month. CONT.

Ronald Brownstein, CNN


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