Low Democratic turnout in blue Houston and blue-leaning counties along Interstate 35...
Gov. Greg Abbott’s dominating re-election victory proved once again that Texas remains a red state despite Democratic strongholds in Harris County and along a blue spine that runs the length of Interstate 35., his margins in both were half what they were four years ago when he ran for the U.S. Senate, dooming any chance he had of becoming the first Democratic governor in Texas in nearly 30 years.
Rio Grande, especially after former President Donald Trump showed in 2020 that Republicans had the potential to make big gains there.GOP strengthens control of State Board of Education, setting up clash over charters, social studies curriculum In 2018, Harris County and Blue Spine counties combined to give O’Rourke more than a 640,000-vote advantage to offset sparsely populated rural areas that remain bright red.the size of his margin there in 2018. And the counties along I-35 gave him just a 210,000 vote edge, according to unofficial results.“Their voters didn’t show up,” Carney said.
Meanwhile, Abbott stuck to talking about a handful of issues that voters repeatedly showed were their top concerns in polling: inflation, the economy and the border.
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