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."
Oh... the fresh botox treatment threw me.
Thanks!
More Botox and she will be a newborn baby....the part in the diaper.
“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 !”
The Republicans may be misinterpreting this surprising victory as signaling Hispanics moving toward the Republican party. The Repub candidate Flores was born MEXICO where Democrat Sanchez is of Mexican decent but was born and raised in Texas and is married to a white woman. Possibly Flores won because the voters saw her as most Mexican rather than what party she belonged to.
I think that is a possibly worrying but astute thought.
La Raza rearing it’s ugly head again?
The only polls that mean anything are those where we cast our ballots.
That little Lying Leftist Gun Grabbing Freak will not be the governor of Texas. Not now, Not Ever.
“if Steny thinks a D+5 district is gone, then they’re in for a bigger shellacking than even we think.”
Here are all the Democrat incumbents who will be losing in November if Steny Hoyer concedes all districts that are D+5 or less. This is a ridiculous pipe dream (though the GOP should get *some* of these), but here goes:
Arizona: Stanton
California: McNerney, Harder, Porter, Levin
Colorado: Perlmutter (open)
Connecticut: Courtney, Hayes
Florida: Deutsch
Georgia: Bishop
Illinois: Newman, Foster, Underwood, Bustos (open), new 13th district too
Indiana: Mrvan
Minnesota: Craig
Nevada: Titus, Lee, Horsford
New Hampshire: Kuster
New Mexico: Fernandez
New Jersey: Kim, Gottheimer
New York: Suozzi (open), Rice (open), Jones, Maloney
North Carolina: Butterfield (open), Manning
Oregon: DeFazio (open), Schrader (already lost primary), new CD-6
Pennsylvania: Houlihan, Lamb (open)
Texas: CD-15 (open), Cuellar
Virginia: Spanbarger, Wexton
Washington: Kilmer, Strickland
Most of the above will still win of course. However the list does NOT include a whole bunch of Democrats who are already in R+ districts, who therefore should lose if ballots are counted honestly.
This could be a backlash against incumbents, not political Parties. Do not take anything for granted; the electorate acts like the wind in a permeable side-winding canyon; who the heck knows where its coming from.
Don't get baited, stay vigilant.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.