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."
I saw that. They’re going to do what they think is best to protect their families and return to be with likeminded people.
People come to America for a better life, not to exist in a socialist hell hole.
“I am concerned that the Dems are throwing this election because something big is staged to happen”
they are building the stage now.
killing the energy market
causing food shortages
massive inflation
fanning the flames of war with Russia
They will blame EVERYTHING on republicans and those weak spine idiots will just sit there and take it (with a few exceptions that will be ignored by the MSM)
Many foreign nationals have see tyranny up close and personal. They recognize totalitarians when they see them.
they cannot cheat enough to avoid an armed confrontation with citizens.
they are counting on us turning the other cheek..
just like has happened over and over again in the past.
He almost won last time he was in a statewide race.
Why are Texas districts getting that mucg mirw Democrat?
Probably lost because the Dem Hispanic crowd missed El Puta Politico O’Rourke campaigning for the local.
White nationalists. Now available in new spicy Southwestern flavor!
That’s ridiculous. The elections in November will take place. Seems like every two or four years people bring up this crap, both on the left and the right depending on who’s in power at the time.
Also, Republicans are not having drag queens to appear in schools, letting men use the girl's room, jamming CRT down kids' throats, making women endure the humiliation of men beating them in women's sports, and equality of outcome. Those are the most important things to Dems, not public safety, not a robust economy, and not opportunity.
A bunch of whiney little bitches.
They weren’t aware that they needed to cheat down there in such a reliable district. When they have a heads up, they are able to slide in those ballots. Look for their cheating ways to go into overdrive.
Transplants?
“No point of winning elections if you can steal them.”
Exactly.
The old rules don’t apply anymore.
I thought people came to America so they could pay reparations to blacks!
;-)
We’ll see. One thing is sure and that is things are going to be in turmoil like we’ve never seen before by Nov. 8.
Good point.
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