This comes a little more than a week after Biden clinched the number of delegates required to be the party’s presumptive nominee for the 2024 Election.
The president arrived just after 11:50 a.m. at Ellington Field and was greeted by Houston Mayor John Whitmire and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo before heading to River Oaks for a private fundraiser.
Before his stop in Houston, Biden went to two fundraisers in Dallas.
“There’s the old saying, ‘Why rob the banks? That’s where the money is,'” said Rice University Political Science professor Mark Jones. “In Texas, the money is in Dallas and in Houston.”
However, Jones believes the money will be spent almost entirely outside Texas.
“This is not about trying to flip Texas,” he said. “Donald Trump is going to win the election in Texas. The only question is what margin.”
Jones expects dollars raised in Texas will be spent in …