Posted on 10/23/2014 6:14:14 AM PDT by bestintxas
Democrat Wendy Davis said Wednesday she would welcome President Barack Obama campaigning for her in Texas after largely keeping distance from him throughout her underdog run for governor.
Still trailing by double digits in some polls with less than two weeks until Election Day, Davis is no longer so cautiously staying at arm's length from Obama, who has gloomy approval ratings in Texas but still packs the ability to boost turnout among Democratic voters.
First lady Michelle Obama recorded a radio ad for Davis that began airing this month.
"I would be thrilled if he or the Clintons, anyone wanted to come and help," Davis said about Obama while speaking to reporters at Democratic headquarters in Austin. "I'm very honored to have their support and the support of so many prominent Democrats across this country. We are fighting for people in our state." Davis said she hasn't invited Obama — and there is no indication he will join the Fort Worth state senator on the trail between now and Nov. 4. Obama plans to rally for a half-dozen Democratic gubernatorial candidates, including next week in Wisconsin, where Mary Burke is going down to the wire against Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
Davis hasn't been able to get as close to Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott, who campaigned in San Antonio on Wednesday with actor Chuck Norris and energized conservatives with a speech heavy on aligning Davis with the White House.
"My opponent has embraced the Barack Obama, big-government liberalism that has hijacked states like California and Massachusetts, and now they're trying to impose on Texas," Abbott said.
Despite impressive fundraising across the U.S. and a national profile, Davis has resisted being too closely aligned with Obama many times throughout her campaign. During their first televised debate last month,
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Late Oct is a good time for an unpopular Rat President to visit TX..go and hit the liberal hot spots.
...and then blame the Republican for allowing ebola to exist...craven, degenerate, democrat...but I repeat myself...
She has a “national profile”
based on what?
Leftists are just that stupid
She is running ads trying to say Abbott opposes interracial marriage and wants to ban sex toys and other strange stuff.
She also did a dildo ad. Or is that the same one with Obama?
Wendy should forget about Obama. The only way she can get Texas’s Democratic base to the polls now is to invite Al Sharpton and an angry Black rent-a-mob to stir up riots in Texas’s big cities.
Just proves she has given up on winning and is concerned with filling the war chest and whipping up the true believers.
She also has the smallest campaign sign at my polling place.. about 10x12”.
>> Somebody needs to put her out of her misery.
Someone needs to put her out of OUR misery!!!
Desperate Wendy ping!
Thanks, AAC!
Ebola or obola. Texas doesn’t need either one.
I disagree, I think Bill would love to have some time with her.
The witch would infect heself with ebola if she thought it would help her win the election
She’d infect everyone in Texas if she thought it would help her. Typical, vile RAT.
Most Texans would welcome Obama to campaign for her.
My 85 year old aunt who is a Texan says she and Obola should go to Dallas “with the top down”.
“but I repeat myself.”
I hate redundancy. I hate redundancy. ;-)
Has she had the surgically-implanted kneepads operation yet?
So you won’t be voting for Wendy then?
I’ve already voted and I was exuberant when I voted AGAINST her.
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