Getting tough on border security and immigration helped catapult Donald Trump to victory in 2016. I think we can agree that Biden and Democrats have outdone themselves, undoing his gains and making things exponentially worse in a year than Barry Obama did with eight of them. Will that hurt Democrats in 2022? I did in TX-34.
Mayra Flores avoided a runoff and flipped Texas’ 34th congressional district in a special election last night. She becomes the first Latina House Republican from Texas, and perhaps the vanguard of a coming red tidal wave in the midterms:…
It’s a primarily urban-suburban district in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) — only 16% of it is rural — and Flores won it outright by running on immigration enforcement. The district is rated D+5 in the Cook index, and most promising of all for the GOP, 85% of its voters are Hispanic.
What’s the Democrat party messaging to Hispanic Americans along the border who have been overrun? Suck it up? Don’t be a racist? Where do you go with that, and how do you come back from this? It’s a brutal 5-point loss.
If the Donkey-Party had even suspected a loss, they’d have engaged special measures to firm up their odds.
It turns out the DCCC didn’t really give the Democrat much, if any, money. I guess he ran as a pro-life Democrat. There’s no room in the Diversity party for that sort of diversity. But does that matter?
A Hispanic woman running as a pro-border security Republican (her husband is in the US border patrol) won in a district that is 85% Hispanic and voted for Biden by (I believe it was) 12 points.
I think that’s a big win. A red wave win.
