Dallas Mayor Aims to Ignite a Republican Urban Renewal after Abandoning Democratic Party
Politics,Dallas,Republican Party
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It wasn’t one thing that pushed Eric Johnson over the edge to leave the Democratic Party after more than a decade in elected office and to join the Republicans.
It was a convergence of factors over the years that led to the Dallas mayor’s political conversion, which he announced with a splash in the Wall Street Journal in September.
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