Posted on 11/08/2024 7:50:41 PM PST by george76
Gilberto Hinojosa’s resignation ends a 12-year run leading the state party, dating back to his election at the 2012 Texas Democratic Convention..
Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa announced his resignation Friday on the heels of another election cycle in which his party suffered blowout losses atop the ticket and vastly underperformed expectations.
In a statement acknowledging Democrats’ “devastating defeats up and down the ballot,” Hinojosa announced he would step down in March when the party’s governing executive committee is scheduled to meet.
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In the months leading up to Tuesday’s election, Hinojosa and other party leaders promoted Texas as a competitive state where Democratic candidates had a real shot of winning a statewide race for the first time since 1994. Instead, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump carried the state by nearly 14 percentage points and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz defeated his Democratic challenger, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred of Dallas, by nearly 9 points. Democrats also lost three seats in the Texas Legislature and nearly every contested state appellate court race, and saw Republicans win 10 countywide judicial races in Harris County — reversing several years of Democratic dominance in Texas’ largest county.
Republicans also set a high-water mark among Latino voters, with Trump capturing 55% of the key voting bloc statewide, according to exit polls. He carried all four counties in the traditionally deep-blue Rio Grande Valley, including Cameron County, where Hinojosa previously served as county judge.
In an interview with The Texas Newsroom this week, Hinojosa said Democrats’ poor performance was in part a result of the way they handled the issue of transgender rights — comments that stirred backlash from party members and LGBTQ advocates.
“You have a choice as a party," Hinojosa said. "You could, for example, you can support transgender rights up and down all the categories where the issue comes up, or you can understand that there's certain things that we just go too far on, that a big bulk of our population does not support."
Hinojosa later apologized for the comments, saying he recognized “the pain and frustration” my words have caused.
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Hinojosa’s departure comes in the middle of a four-year term that began when he was reelected at the 2022 Texas Democratic Convention. His successor will be selected by the party’s governing executive committee and will serve out the remainder of Hinojosa’s term, according to the state party rules.
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Hinojosa has drawn criticism especially for offering overly rosy projections. At the Democratic National Convention in August, Hinojosa referred to Texas as “the nation’s biggest battleground state” as he announced Texas would deliver its delegates for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Texas won’t be doing blue or even purple for many, many, many moons. Red is in our blood.
Take the rest of the commies with you
My county turned out the most voters it ever has in its history. And it is one of the oldest counties in Texas. I voted early this election and I saw lots of people standing in line who normally don’t vote. I had a good feeling on that day.
GWB deeply saddened.
My thoughts exactly.
Yep, I was pleasantly surprised recently when my young Latino son proclaimed he’s all in for keeping Texas red.
In true "fail upward" party fashion, this should make Hinojosa a shoe-in for the Democrat 2028 nomination.
The guy had to apologize for offending transgenders.
What a pathetic loser.
That’s what I’m talking about. In Arizona I lived in a town heavily populated with Hispanics. THEY ABSOLUTELY HATED ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THERE WAS A GOOD REASON FOR IT. ILLEGAL ALIENS MADE THEIR LIVES WORSE.
Democrats poured a ton of $ into Texas trying to make Colin Alred happen.
He would run these breathless ads saying that he and Cruz were neck and neck.
Yeah, no.
He was a garden-variety Dem; supports transgenders, open borders and unlimited abortions. No way that was ever gonna play in Texas.
“The guy had to apologize for offending transgenders.
What a pathetic loser.”
More like what a pathetic party. The guy offered a sliver of moderation and the tranny mob wanted him lynched.
“Hinojosa has drawn criticism especially for offering overly rosy projections. At the Democratic National Convention in August, Hinojosa referred to Texas as “the nation’s biggest battleground state” as he announced Texas would deliver its delegates for Vice President Kamala Harris.”
...and with that, many, many, millions of dollars flowed into Texas - which could have been used in the Midwest, where it was needed. So THANK YOU Chairman Hinojosa!
That is very good news for us nationwide.
If the Democrat jockey has to carry a LGBT lead weight on their back they will lose every national election race for decades.
The dems sure waste a lot of money in Texas.
>> GWB deeply saddened.
GWB and Rick Perry, both.
Screw the GWB/Perry/Phelan axis.
Yeah if the GOP has the stones to use it.
We know a President Trump run party will use it. He did use it in his campaign talking about transgender surgery for prisoners.
We will just need to keep the Republicans feet to the fire on this issue.
It is a sure winner with average Americans of all kinds—a fatal Achilles heel for the Democrats.
He’s almost there. It isn’t just that you go too far on those issues. It’s that you support them at all...Come on, Gilberto! Just a couple more steps and your transformation to the right side will be complete.
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