GOP sweeps in Texas races signal growing Hispanic support for party

“We’ve all said Latinos aren’t a monolith, but in the Valley in particular, there’s three major employers,” Nuestro PAC’s Chuck Rocha told the Texas Tribune. “There’s border security, there’s the local government, and there’s oil and gas, and all of those folks don’t line up with the value set that woke brown consultants or woke white consultants in New York or D.C. are selling as a national narrative to these Democrats.” So it’s no surprise that Rio Grande congressmen Henry Cuellar and Gonzalez have called on President Biden to alter his stance on the border and rescind his executive order halting fracking on federal lands. “The results in South Texas show that the shift among Hispanics is more than just a response to the personal brand of Donald Trump,” Washington Post columnist and election-data expert Henry Olsen told me. “The Left’s emphasis on issues and language that do not support the working-class aspirations of people regardless of their ethnicity is hurting them. Biden wants to placate both the hard Left and party moderates and keep everyone in his coalition. But there’s no way to [quell] the tension between the two wings. Some on one side or the other will jump ship.”