Without a reliable Latino base, the Democratic dream of turning Texas blue is at least deferred, possibly for another generation.
FILE - Donald Trump talks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a presidential campaign visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, Feb. 29, 2024, in Eagle Pass. has fortified Republican dominance in Texas and reversed any progress Democrats have made in making the Lone Star State a legitimate political battleground.
“Every election that Donald Trump has been involved in, either directly or indirectly, has had its own kind of unusual factors,” Henson said. “So we don’t know what the pattern actually is.” South Texas voters were turned off by the soaring number of migrants who crossed the border during Biden’s tenure. Republicans also hammered Democrats on social wedge issues, like transgender athletes playing in women’s sports and federal prisoners getting gender-affirming surgeries with public dollars.
Villalba said Hispanics in South Texas are just as opposed to illegal immigration as those in the Panhandle or East Texas. “If we’re going to get out of this hole that we found ourselves in after this election, we need to figure out how we change that narrative that caused them to go in the direction that we never believed they would go,” Hinojosa said.Democrats don’t control Texas politics, but their support of policies pushed by national Democrats often put them on the defensive. There’s also the notion that Democrats have taken Latino voters for granted.
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