Posted on 06/16/2022 10:31:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
After Republican Mayra Flores won the special election for Texas' 34th Congressional District — flipping the D+5 district that covers a portion of the Rio Grande Valley — Democrats are apparently not doing well.
After winning her election on Tuesday night, Flores tweeted that her campaign "started the red wave" that's been building ahead of November's general election — and Democrats are apparently realizing just how big that red wave may be.
Fresh reporting in POLITICO on Wednesday showed how Democrats are in disarray in new ways and how the blame game has already started after just one special election loss in Texas. "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," POLITICO reported.
The campaign manager for Flores' opponent — Democrat Dan Sanchez — told The Texas Tribune that national Democrat campaign infrastructure amounted to "a complete and total abdication of duty." He added that "the DCCC, DNC, and other associated national committees have failed at their single purpose of existence: winning elections." Oof.
A lot of coping and seething from the Dems this morning in PLAYBOOK pic.twitter.com/YLksV9bhY9
— Alec Sears (@alec_sears) June 16, 2022 So, even with just one special election on the board this week, the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee were apparently MIA when it came to helping Sanchez win and keeping Texas' 34th District in the blue column.
And while the special election was just to select a representative to serve out the remainder of the current Congress, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez — the Democrat who will face off against Flores in November — doesn't have much faith in the DCCC to help him win.
"I hope the DCCC learns their lesson with this before it happens across the country," said Democrat Vicente Gonzalez, before pointing to the bigger issue for Democrats. "They have just forgotten about the brown people on the border… I’m not going to try to sugarcoat it anymore," Gonzalez said. "They are taking Latinos in South Texas for granted."
Indeed they are. In 2020, Democrats lost seats in districts the national party and its leaders assumed were safe because they took Hispanic voters for granted. Republicans, on the other hand, have been investing in Hispanic areas with local community centers, long-lasting ground games to build coalitions, and showing those forgotten by Democrats that there is a party that cares about their communities' safety, economic wellbeing, and opportunity.
As POLITICO explains, "the resounding win by Flores — a health practitioner and wife of a border patrol agent — marks the first flip of the midterm cycle for Republicans, and it also hands them a unique messenger as the GOP looks to capture more border and majority-Latino districts in November."
Just wait for the border crossers to be rounded up for mass deportation.
HA!! Not under BiteMe
The dims are rooting around for someone Mayra Flores offended while in the second grade or so.
Latinos don’t support latinx and all that that word stands for.
But Beto is pollling within 5 pts of Abbott?
They vote the “WRONG” way and they will be gone. If they want to be self-sufficient then they are the wrong color.
Elsewhere in Washington, Democrats such as Rep. Steny Hoyer tried to minimize his party's loss that has Texas Dems panicking. "I think we made the judgment that it was pretty much a Republican seat," he explained as to why the race — in a D+5 district — wasn't prioritized.
So, Pelosi’s dictatorship is down to +3 democrats now?
That’s why “she” insists on House rules allowing proxy votes - if the (democrat party) rep is ill or out-of-town, “she” can decide what the missing democrat’s votes will be and allow a House vote anyway.
Democrats stand in horror as they realize they changed the system to flood the USA with non-western immigrants and now they realize they may not vote democratic anyway !
😂🤣🤦♂️
All the Democrats and national political pundits and polling organizations will say this race is close and Beto could win, the purpose is to gin up money and interest when in the end Beto will be soundly defeated.
When do they take anything well?
The democRATs think all Latinos are gay and transgender. It is just projection!
if Steny thinks a D+5 district is gone, then they’re in for a bigger shellacking than even we think.
I am concerned that the Dems are throwing this election because something big is staged to happen.
I have never seen them this dysfunctional
The Demos keep trying different combinations of makeup, botox, hairstyling, and plastic surgery to conceal to the electorate who they really are. In essence they are well represented by the face of Nancy Pelosi, who tries in all the same ways to conceal who she really is: an 82-year-old crone who refuses to let go of the power she has become addicted to, no matter how badly the nation suffers. In both cases the suffering of the nation is a minor concern compared to their retention of power.
But don’t worry, Demos, Vladimir P. understands and sympathizes.
What lie?
Democrats believe we're 'white supremacists'... And all the while Hispanics, blacks and Asians have been joining our team.
What lie?
Democrats believe we're 'white supremacists'... And all the while Hispanics, blacks and Asians have been joining our team.
MUST be a BS Poll!
He won’t even come close to Abbott.
Just concern among democrats over how much vote correction input will be needed in November. Once they are rigging over 30% things get a little Ceaucescau. 25% for them is ok. The 10% they rigged in 2020 was just practice.
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