Trump won in a landslide, but these Hispanic border counties in South Texas are increasingly becoming a highlight of that victory.
It's almost unbelievable that a man who continually claims he'll shut down the border so no more illegal Hispanics can get in won over a bunch of Hispanics near the border in Texas. But he did. They are most certainly feeling the impacts of Biden's wide-open border down there in South Texas.
Nowhere in the United States have historically Democratic counties shifted so far and so fast in the direction of former President Donald J. Trump as they have in the Texas communities along the Rio Grande, where Hispanic residents make up an overwhelming majority.
In recent elections, the region's mix of sprawling urban centers and rural ranch lands that had been reliable Democratic strongholds for generations were beginning to turn red.
Then on Tuesday, Mr. Trump brought South Texas and the border region firmly into his column, taking 12 of the 14 counties along the border with Mexico, and making significant inroads even in El Paso, the border's biggest city. In 2016, Mr. Trump carried only five of the counties.
I'm not exaggerating, we could be seeing a realignment in this country like we haven't seen in half a century. Either that, or this swing speaks to how demonstrably terrible the Biden-Harris reign has been - especially at the border.
Either way, it's historic, and I have to show you more of this NYT piece, because it's unbelievable.
But Texas stood out. Eight of the top 10 Democratic counties that most swung toward Mr. Trump on Tuesday were on the Texas border or within a short drive.
One of the biggest swings came in Starr County, a rural area of 65,000 people dotted with small towns where sections of border wall have been rising, incomes are low and many travel long distances to jobs in the West Texas oil fields. The county flipped Republican on Tuesday, backing Mr. Trump by about 16 percentage points. He lost the county to Hillary Clinton by 60 points in 2016 …
Trump just absolutely destroyed in Texas, and now it's up to him to make things right again after four years of Biden-Harris failures.
Making America great again starts at the border, and these huge swings in Southern Texas tell us so.
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