GOP turnout more than doubled in the Rio Grande Valley compared with the last midterm primary, and the party’s most favored candidates advanced across several down-ballot races there.
Democrats have acknowledged for months that they need to do better in South Texas, a predominantly Hispanic region where President Joe Biden underperformed in 2020. That set the stage for an aggressive Republican offensive there this year, bolstered by redistricting, which packed more Trump voters into some of the districts the GOP was already targeting.
The comparison is based on turnout by each party in the top-of-the-ticket race — governor this year — which often draws the most voters in a county. However, local races can sometimes attract more voters, especially in South Texas, and serve as the higher number. South Texas Democrats also had some high-profile primaries that should have driven turnout, like Cuellar’s primary and a rare open Texas Senate seat based in Cameron County.
Republicans were especially excited about Starr County. After only 15 people voted in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate there in 2018, 1,089 turned out for the GOP primary for governor there Tuesday — an increase of more than 7,000%. Not only did the Republican primary turnout spike, but the Democratic primary turnout dropped by nearly half.
, placed first in her seven-way primary and advanced to a runoff against Sandra Whitten, the 2020 GOP nominee for the seat. It is currently held by Cuellar, who ran in the state’s highest-profile primary and was forced into a runoff against Jessica Cisneros, the progressive challenger who first took him on in 2020.
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