Why Democratic hopes were dashed in Texas

[brooklynite]

Vox

Biden won the Hispanic vote by 19 points this year, according to the exits, but that’s down from Hillary Clinton’s 27-point margin in 2016. A number of heavily Hispanic counties in the Rio Grande Valley shifted toward Trump: Zapata County, to name one, broke for Trump by 5 points with most of the expected vote counted after Clinton won it by more than 30 points in 2016. The president’s share of the county’s vote jumped from 33 percent to 52 percent in his reelection bid.

In 2020, the Democrat also lost several counties — Val Verde, Jim Wells, Frio among them — that Barack Obama, Clinton and Beto O’Rourke had won in previous elections.

Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, a politics professor at the University of Texas, told the Texas Tribune that Biden underperformed with Hispanics because he wasn’t as well known to them as Hillary Clinton and the Covid-19 pandemic limited his campaign’s voter outreach.

The Trump campaign, on the other hand, pushed ahead with its ground game, despite the public health crisis, and it paid off.

[JI7]

1. The Lack of on the ground campainging is the most likely reason . But there wasn't much we could do

Republicans don't care what happens to their volunteers and voters.

[gay texan]

3. i will say this

In the rural area out where i'm at, it would be extremely dangerous. Low intelligence and guns go hand in hand out here.

[SouthernCal_Dem]

2. So ignoring the pandemic and putting people at risk pays off

America is a broken country.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. That's pretty much the message