Republicans already liked their chances in South Texas in November, but the Tuesday primary gave them even more reason to be optimistic. From the TexasTribune txlege
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. Republicans had on their side two statewide primaries — for governor and attorney general — where campaigns spent tens of millions of dollars to mobilize GOP voters. But even then, the increase in Republican primary turnout statewide — 25% — was far more modest than the increase in the Rio Grande Valley.
“All props to them, an increase is an increase,” Prado said, “but making your way up the hill doesn’t mean you’re at the top of the hill.” , a longtime Democrat who switched to the GOP last year — and romped in Starr County, getting more votes there Tuesday than even the governor did.Starr County was also a target of Project Red Texas, a Republican group that recruited 125 candidates for local offices across South Texas. That gave Republicans new reasons to turn out in places like Starr County, which had Republicans running for five county offices, some of them contested, after a dearth of GOP contenders in 2018.
In another major down-ballot race, Republican Adam Hinojosa won outright in his party’s primary for state Senate District 27, where Democratic Sen.of Brownsville is retiring. Two Democrats, Sara Stapleton-Barrera and Morgan LaMantia, advanced to a runoff for the seat.
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