Here’s Why the South Texas Special Election Spells Doom for Dems in November

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Here’s Why the South Texas Special Election Spells Doom for Dems in November

Republicans send first Mexican-born woman to Congress in Dem stronghold

Collin Anderson • June 15, 2022 11:36 am

Republicans flipped a majority-Hispanic seat in South Texas for the first time in more than a century Tuesday night, a result that spells major trouble for Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterms.

Republican Mayra Flores became the first Mexican-born woman elected to Congress after she defeated Democrat Dan Sanchez by 8 points in the special election for Texas's 34th Congressional District, which incumbent Filemon Vela (D.) vacated in March. A Republican has not represented the area since 1870, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Flores's historic win will almost certainly send Democrats reeling just months away from November as the party loses its long-held grip on Hispanic voters. Vela won the district, which is 84 percent Hispanic, by 20 points in 2018 and 14 points in 2020. But record-high inflation, gas prices, and illegal immigrant encounters under President Joe Biden have driven South Texas's Hispanic voters to the Republican Party in droves. Flores, for example, defeated Sanchez in Cameron County, which is 90 percent Hispanic. Biden won the county by double-digits less than two years ago.

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[PeteS in CA]

Since Flores and Sanchez are both Hispanic, I suspect the race turned on the Biden economy, and/or the candidates' roots in the community.

Whether this is a harbinger or an isolated incident will be seen in about 5 months.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Reality check:  Mail-in voting erases Democrat "doom".

Nothing's been done to fix this.

[libertybele]

Reality check:  Mail-in voting erases Democrat "doom".

Nothing's been done to fix this.

Amen and Amen!!!

[Ghost Bear]

Reality check:  Mail-in voting erases Democrat "doom".

Nothing's been done to fix this.

Reality check: it's been fixed in Texas.

[Wingnut]

Since Flores and Sanchez are both Hispanic, I suspect the race turned on the Biden economy, and/or the candidates' roots in the community.

Whether this is a harbinger or an isolated incident will be seen in about 5 months.

Well, there was a "Hotness" factor.  Not that anyone would ever cast a vote based on race or looks.

[DefiantMassRINO]

What the Dems can't get through their thick woke limousine liberal patronizing skulls is that many Latin Americans are conservative Catholics.

The Dems worship at the altar of their false idol, Abortion.

The Dems have been loosing Catholics of many nationalities because many Catholics fall into the Dems' "deplorables" column.

Dems can't understand why the people they hold in contempt will not vote for them.