Democrats in the region still had higher turnout, but Republicans celebrated the...
Fueled by more candidates and outreach, GOP turnout more than doubled in the Rio Grande Valley compared to the last midterm primary, and the party’s most favored candidates advanced across several down-ballot races there.Republicans already liked their chances in South Texas in November, but the primary gave them even more reason to be optimistic.
To be sure, Democrats in the region still had higher turnout, but Republicans celebrated the narrowing of the gap. Despite the improvement, nearly 87 percent of registered voters in the Rio Grande Valley did not vote in the primary, similar to the rate in 2018. Republicans more than doubled their primary turnout in the four counties — Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr and Willacy — that make up the Rio Grande Valley from 2018 to 2022, while Democratic primary turnout was virtually the same. Democrats outvoted Republicans there by a wide margin March 1 — about 35,000 ballots — but that deficit narrowed from roughly 49,000 in the last midterm.
“We had several competitive primaries, but it’s a testament to the fact that if you believe in something, you never give up,” said Adrienne Peña Garza, chair of the Hidalgo County GOP. She traced the trajectory back to 2010, when her dad, former state Rep. Aaron Peña, switched parties. He did not seek re-election two years later due to redistricting, but his political comeback began when he won the GOP primary for a seat on a state appeals court.
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.
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