A year later, she’s hit a low point, grappling with the reality of running for office as a Democrat in a deep-red state.
Her campaign’s relationship with the Democratic Governors Association has soured. She’s down in the polls by double digits. And national Democrats have all but written off her race.
But Davis is defiant.
“I don’t spend time thinking about whether someone in Washington, D.C. believes that this is a winnable race – I know it is,” she told POLITICO.
In a nearly 15-minute interview here, dripping with disdain for Washington, Davis said the D.C. chattering class fails to see the energy she encounters in Texas, where, she says, people regularly come up to her moved to tears.
“I’m focused on what’s going on here on the ground in Texas,” she said. “I understand why it’s difficult for people who are in D.C. to see and understand what’s happening here, but I see and understand it. And I’m motivated by it and encouraged tremendously by it.”
Davis vaulted into the national spotlight after delivering a lengthy pro-abortion rights filibuster on June 25, 2013, that temporarily helped derail measures restricting access to the procedure.
