HOUSTON — A charismatic personality isn't going to end the Texas Democratic Party long electoral drought, three prominent local officeholders said Friday. But bickering Republicans and a renewed effort to build their party and their bench of candidates will help bring Texas Democrats back into statewide office.

“You are never going to succeed as a party pinning your hopes on any one person or any few people,” San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro told reporters at the party's convention in Houston. “What you need is the community at large to understand what you stand for and to get out ...

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