As of early Wednesday, the Republican was leading election returns in Brownsville’s Cameron County, McAllen’s Hidalgo County and even Laredo’s Webb County.
Former President Donald Trump is on track to flip almost every major county in South Texas , a stunning blow to Democrats in a region long known as a blue bastion. As of early Wednesday, the Republican was leading election returns in Brownsville ’s Cameron County , McAllen’s Hidalgo County and even Laredo ’s Webb County , all places that had voted for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden by double digits in 2016 and 2020.
View results from across Texas, from U.S. Senate to the state legislature. Trump’s strong performance teed up Texas Republicans to sweep a number of key races down ballot, expanding their footprint in the region and indicating that their conservative messaging has staying power with the region’s working-class and heavily-Latino electorate.
Ted Cruz handily defeats Colin Allred, winning a third term in tight U.S. Senate race South Texas first came into the spotlight as a battleground region in 2020, when many border counties shifted towards Trump. Republicans began investing heavily in the region in the 2022 midterms, coming away with relatively disappointing results despite spending millions. But their hopes for the region came to fruition this year as a number of GOP incumbents widened their winning margins. U.S. Rep.
Rep. Henry Cuellar wins reelection in South Texas despite looming trial over bribery charges The race in LaMantia’s state Senate district, also located in Brownsville, was the only competitive race in that chamber. LaMantia’s family, which owns a large beer distributor, had loaned her millions of dollars for the race. But her campaign suffered a blow with former state Sen.
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