Posted on 06/16/2022 1:10:43 AM PDT by Libloather
Less than 24 hours after the GOP flipped a congressional district in South Texas, several Latino Democrats cornered their campaign chief on the House floor with a fervent plea: It’s time for the party to make a crucial course correction.
Republicans blew up more than a century of almost uninterrupted Democratic control in that region Tuesday night, earning a special election win in a heavily Latino border district they had rarely even contested since its creation in 2012 - but where the GOP has made rapid gains in the last few years.
That trend has been on Democrats’ minds since former President Donald Trump cut deep into the party’s margins in the Rio Grande Valley in 2020. But national Republicans poured money into the special election in this 85 percent Latino district from the beginning.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and its allies, meanwhile, only made a small investment at the end, despite requests from members to get involved earlier.
“I hope the DCCC learns their lesson with this before it happens across the country,” said Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who due to redistricting will face GOP Rep.-elect Mayra Flores this fall in a redrawn district.
“They have just forgotten about the brown people on the border,” Gonzalez continued. “And that’s basically what it is. I’m not going to try to sugarcoat it anymore. They are taking Latinos in South Texas for granted.”
When the House convened Wednesday afternoon, several members approached DCCC Chair Sean Patrick Maloney. Democratic Reps. Sylvia Garcia and Veronica Escobar, whose Texas districts are also predominantly Latino, were among them. Garcia said she requested a meeting next week and that Escobar, Gonzalez and fellow Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar and Joaquin Castro all plan to attend.
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She has been running at November this whole time, but then the incumbent resigned to become a lobbyist. Winning this was just a bonus that makes her more credible for the coming race against the neighboring incumbent.
Latinos are thrilled with the Democrat policy of paying reparations to black people.....
not.
Power hungry, stupid, panicked, and vicious. I’m thinking wet cats in a bag is the better metaphor
Thank God for the BLUE COLLAR workers that mentored latino men on what is going on in this country.
This did not come from Telemundo or Univision, both spew Marxist ideology: it came from workers on the job site who sweat next to the latinos.
Latinos by culture are strict Roman Catholic. The democrats don’t fit into their culture.
The Dems thought that the Hispanic vote would go 90%/10% Dem/Rep, just like the black vote. Instead, the Hispanic voting percentages will sooner or later, and it looks sooner, go 50/50 or close to it.
Tie that into the black population being stuck on 13%, while the Hispanic population increases, making this a losing proposition for the Dems.
So a portion of the democrat party insists that the party pretend to be something other than what it is. Even more assiduously than it does already.
-—13%-—
Hmmm....... I thought it was <12%.
I have posted several tomes that a change in the voting of Afro Heritage citizens from Black to Afro-Heritage minority-minority dooms the Democrat party.
Can I rely on 13% to be accurate? Is the tipping point then arund 15% or say 14%?
Regardless, their population has been stuck on this number for decades, with no increase whatsoever.
Just call everyone who didn’t support you “THAT’S RACIST” It should work great.
Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. These lunatics never stop.
Latino’s do not like blacks, period.. full stop.
The first Race War will be blacks vs hispanics,
yes it will, I’ll take the hispanic gangs (they shoot straight) over black gangs(they spray)
Mr. Boxlunch said the same thing yesterday. If demorats ever think hispanics are going to turn Republican, the dems will change their tune and get that wall built so fast it will make your head spin!
Me two.
“too” ;)
Republican. Not “Red.” Red’s the color of totalitarian Stalinazism and Satan. Don’t let 22 years of willful mislabeling from the real Demonrat REDS stop you from refusing to abide by it.
Or you throw it back in their face and reclaim it.
Last time I checked Red is the first color of the flag and represents the blood of patriots. It was a dirty trick by the news idiots.
Every sinister leftist party has red for their color. Red Nazi flag, the former Soviet flag, Red China, just for starters.
It’s the color of the blood of their billions of victims.
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