Texas 35th Voters Largely Miss Galindo Furor in House Runoff as Democrats Sound Alarm
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Updated · The New York Times · May 25
Texas 35th Voters Largely Miss Galindo Furor in House Runoff as Democrats Sound Alarm
7 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 25
Friday interviews in Texas’s 35th district found many runoff voters were unaware of Maureen Galindo’s remarks about making a detention center “a prison for American Zionists,” or knew few details.
The low awareness comes as Democrats try to stop Galindo, a little-known progressive sex therapist, from winning the party’s nomination in the San Antonio-area U.S. House race.
Hakeem Jeffries accused Republicans of covertly boosting her with a sudden influx of cash to weaken Democrats in November, though the report offered no voter evidence that the controversy had broken through locally.
Galindo said a local journalist twisted her words and maintained she was calling for detention centers to be closed, while two Jewish House Democrats said they would seek daily expulsion votes if she reached Congress.
Why did a national firestorm over a candidate's remarks fail to register with voters in her own district?
What does the rare threat of expulsion from Congress reveal about the limits of acceptable political speech?