Despite improving fortunes for Democrats, Texas still tough for Biden to win

A series of polls showing Joe Biden leading or effectively tied with President Trump in Texas may be giving false hopes to Democrats that the party can win its electoral votes for the first time since 1976.

But the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s chances of claiming the Lone Star State’s 38 Electoral College votes remain narrow. That’s because, in part, the former vice president’s favorable poll numbers in Texas have less to do with operations within than wider national trends.