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Republicans Have Won South Texas Latinos. Does the Democratic Party Have a Path Back?

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DATE POSTED:November 8, 2024
What happened with Tejano vote?The oldest woman in Texas, Elizabeth Francis, died at age 115 in Houston on October 24. She was one of the final people in the state who was alive the last time Webb County, home to Laredo, voted for a Republican for president—that is, until the country voted for Donald Trump, nearly two weeks after Francis died.On Tuesday, Trump became the first GOP presidential candidate since William Howard Taft in 1912 to win Webb. It’s perhaps the most impressive jewel Trump has collected in his stunning crusade through what was once deep blue South Texas. Webb’s population is more than 95 percent Latino, and, like other Mexican American counties across the region, it shifted hard right in the 2020 election. Trump almost quadrupled his turnout…

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