WSJ: Democrats Lost South Texas Latinos Due to Shutdowns, Oil, and Abortion

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WSJ: Democrats Lost South Texas Latinos Due to Shutdowns, Oil, and Abortion

Dr. Susan Berry 9 Nov 2020

The chairman of the Texas Democratic Party said the red wave that moved through South Texas’s Starr County was due to three issues critical to Latino voters in that area: pandemic shutdowns, oil industry jobs, and abortion.

According to a report at the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Sunday, the idea that Starr County would have 8,224 residents vote for President Donald Trump is mindboggling.

In 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton held a 60-point margin over Trump in Starr County, but, in 2020, Joe Biden barely slid over the edge to beat Trump by five points, making the county the largest swing to Trump of any in the United States.

The WSJ also observed that, in 2016, Clinton won nearby Zapata County by 33 points, but the president won it by six points this year.

Breitbart News reported Thursday, in fact, that Trump “made significant strides in traditionally Democrat-held counties on or near the Texas border,” and that “Biden lost more counties than almost any Democrat candidate in Texas’s history.”

“There is a systematic bias in the Democrat world that pigeonholes people into voting certain ways,” Dave Carney, chief political consultant for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), told Breitbart News Wednesday. “There is a belief that if more Latinos voted, more Democrats would get elected.”

WSJ reported the results in South Texas are shocking to Democrats since the Latino population in that region has been loyal to the Democrat Party, unlike Republican-leaning Latinos in Florida:

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https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/11/09/wsj-democrats-lost-south-texas-latinos-due-shutdowns-oil-jobs-abortion/

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WSJ: Democrats Lost South Texas Latinos Due to Shutdowns, Oil, and Abortion

Dr. Susan Berry 9 Nov 2020

The chairman of the Texas Democratic Party said the red wave that moved through South Texas’s Starr County was due to three issues critical to Latino voters in that area: pandemic shutdowns, oil industry jobs, and abortion.

According to a report at the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Sunday, the idea that Starr County would have 8,224 residents vote for President Donald Trump is mindboggling.

In 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton held a 60-point margin over Trump in Starr County, but, in 2020, Joe Biden barely slid over the edge to beat Trump by five points, making the county the largest swing to Trump of any in the United States.

The WSJ also observed that, in 2016, Clinton won nearby Zapata County by 33 points, but the president won it by six points this year.

Breitbart News reported Thursday, in fact, that Trump “made significant strides in traditionally Democrat-held counties on or near the Texas border,” and that “Biden lost more counties than almost any Democrat candidate in Texas’s history.”

“There is a systematic bias in the Democrat world that pigeonholes people into voting certain ways,” Dave Carney, chief political consultant for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), told Breitbart News Wednesday. “There is a belief that if more Latinos voted, more Democrats would get elected.”

WSJ reported the results in South Texas are shocking to Democrats since the Latino population in that region has been loyal to the Democrat Party, unlike Republican-leaning Latinos in Florida:

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https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/11/09/wsj-democrats-lost-south-texas-latinos-due-shutdowns-oil-jobs-abortion/

That's almost unbelievable.

I wonder why it pertained to only one predominate Latino county though.

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That's almost unbelievable.

I wonder why it pertained to only one predominate Latino county though.

2020 Election Signals Political Realignment in Texas Border Counties

https://thetexan.news/2020-election-signals-political-realignment-in-texas-border-counties/

Significant gains for Republicans in South Texas and along the border show that the region is turning purple.

The South Texas counties of Starr, Maverick, Jim Hogg, and Kenedy all shifted toward Trump by over twenty points between the 2016 and 2020 elections, though Kenedy, with only 296 registered voters, was the only of the four that Trump carried.

38 other counties swung more than five points toward Trump, mostly along the border.

Though the shift was not enough to swing many of the staunchly Democratic counties toward the GOP, such wide differences between the two presidential elections suggest that districts in the region are turning purple.

House District 74, for example, consists of 12 counties in West Texas and along the U.S.-Mexico border and was carried by Clinton with 56 percent of the vote.

This year, Trump carried the district with 53 percent of the vote, while Biden only received 46 percent.

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2020 Election Signals Political Realignment in Texas Border Counties

https://thetexan.news/2020-election-signals-political-realignment-in-texas-border-counties/

This does not point to Texas turning blue does it?