During a visit to Houston last week, vice president Kamala Harris delivered what was billed as a pitch intended to get Latino Texans excited about President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. After taking the stage, Harris had to implore the cheering audience to settle down. Then she spoke for thirty minutes, expressing hope that—after a 29-year electoral drought—Democrats in Texas might earn some victories in statewide races. “We’ve got a lot of work to do to make true the promise of who we are as America,” she said. “We’re going to have to build [a] coalition, and we’re going to have to remember that . . . this is a time for us to recommit ourselves.” Hours later, at a fundraiser, Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, declared that “we will…
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