Loading ...Democrats Must Regret Messing with Texas
One of the elusive goals of our corrupt intellectual culture is to turn Texas blue. Among the 4 most populous states, California, Texas, Florida, and New York, Texas is an exceptional electoral prize and one which, if turned to blue politics, would spell the end of Republican victories at the national level.
The 2018 senatorial run of Beto O’Rourke was a key insurgency toward that goal and $70 million dollars was spent compared to less than half of that for the incumbent Senator Ted Cruz. O’Rourke lost the election despite sizable gains in Congress for the Democrats broadly that fall. Many of the highly and deliberately deceptive polls painted Texas 2020 as once again in play. The latest effort to mess with Texas failed dramatically — again.
Texas was won by Republican Presidential incumbent Donald Trump by 52% to 46%. Trump won by more than 600,000 votes among almost 12 million votes cast. Democrats spent incredible sums of money trying to turn the state legislative chambers of Texas blue and failed miserably. Democrats targeted 22 races in hopes of turning at least nine to their side and flipping the chamber. They got zero. Wendy Davis also lost her congressional race despite being the Democrat standard bearer at one time for the governor’s race.
The most shocking Democrat loss was Zapata County — just north of the Rio Grande Valley along the border — by 6 points, 53% Trump to 47% for Biden. The county is 94% Hispanic. The last two presidential elections there were Clinton +33 and Obama +43. It is difficult to convey the dimensions of shock inflicted on the Democrats by this loss. This is a border county that epitomizes one of the most important slanders maintained by our intellectual culture against President Trump: President Trump hates Mexicans. He hates Mexican immigrants and he hates Hispanic people.
According to the narrative makers, President Trump wishes to keep Mexican children in cages at the border and separate them from their parents so that they never see them again. Zapata County rejected this argument and they were not alone. Studies of Hispanic Republicans in Texas finds that support for President Trump is around 79%. In 20 Texas counties— almost all along the Mexican border— Trump increased his support by more than 10% among voters compared to 2016. In another 22 counties in the same region, he improved his vote by 5-10%. By comparison, not a single county in Texas increased its support for Biden over Clinton by 10%. Only two counties in Texas showed reduced support for Trump of 5%. Both counties were urban counties away from the border.
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