Rebelling Republican Suburbs Offer Democrats Path to House Control Image

The following article by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns was posted on the New York Times website December 18, 2017:

The House candidate Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, right, and her campaign manager, Erin Mincberg, looking over a map at campaign headquarters in Houston last week.CreditScott Dalton for The New York Times

HOUSTON — As she sat with a glass of sauvignon blanc waiting for a women-focused Democratic fund-raiser to begin, Nancy Sharp let loose in a Texas-seasoned drawl why she and so many other onetime supporters of the Bush family were abandoning the Republicans.

“Have you ever heard of a stupider and trashier man than the president of the United States?” asked Ms. Sharp, an interior designer who lives not far from the elegant condominium where about 75 women gathered this month to help the House candidate Lizzie Pannill Fletcher. “Calling a U.S. senator ‘Pocahontas’ in front of God and everyone!” Continue reading “Rebelling Republican Suburbs Offer Democrats Path to House Control Image”