Wendy Davis not feeling much love from Democrat political class

Politico:

Wendy Davis was riding high last summer as the most watched, most talked about, most loved new Democratic star. Her fans included Harry Reid and Barack Obama. Liberals all over Washington toasted her, urging her to run for governor of Texas.

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.”
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If it were not for out of state Democrats she would not be able to afford an aggressive campaign.   But the fact is, that besides the difficulties of a Democrat winning in Texas to begin with, she has not been a very good candidate.  She has managed to alienate what would otherwise be a supportive media, and she just does not have a winning theme she can push.