Democrats lost Texas because of Covid and Republican voter drive, report finds

A party postmortem says more outreach to non-voters is needed after a predicted blue wave failed to materialise in 2020

Get-out-the-vote efforts hampered by the coronavirus pandemic and an 11th-hour voter registration surge for well-funded Republicans thwarted ambitions of a blue wave in Texas during the 2020 election, according to a new postmortem that state Democrats shared with the Guardian.