Republicans are starting to pay more attention to Texas Senate District 27 — the only...
singled out for praise a friendly Democrat in the crowd, retiring state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. of Brownsville.
Still, it remains to be seen if Republicans will prioritize the contest as much as others in the region. They are up against a formidable Democratic nominee in Morgan LaMantia, a McAllen lawyer whose whose family runs the L&F beer distributor — and who spent over $3 million to win her party’s nomination while making bipartisan appeals that could pay off in November.
Patrick stayed out of the primary in the district — a conspicuous absence given that he engaged aggressively in the nominating contests for every other open Senate seat. But he seems to have focused more on the race now that Hinojosa is the nominee, shouting him out twice at the Hidalgo County GOP Lincoln Reagan Dinner and promising to “do everything I can to help” make the Rio Grande Valley a “Republican stronghold.
“I’m pro-life and she is very much not pro-life,” Hinojosa said. “In a district where our Democrat Sen. Eddie Lucio is very pro-life, that’s a pretty drastic shift [if voters elect LaMantia].”Compared to her seven-figure machine, he raised less than $50,000 as of June 30 and loaned himself $88,000. He had a little over $5,000 cash on hand at the end of June; LaMantia had $58,000.
Still, it is an open question whether Republicans are ready to fight as hard in SD-27 as they are in other overlapping districts. For example, they are expected to battle to get Flores reelected, D-McAllen, in a bluer district, and state House leadership is all in on electing Republican Janie Lopez to a new battleground seat in Cameron County.
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