McAllen, Texas in Hidalgo County is a border city smack in the middle of the Rio Grande Valley, a heavily Hispanic area that Democrats have dominated since time immemorial. Hidalgo went for Biden by 16% in 2020, and by 41% for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The just elected a republican mayor:
The city of McAllen has a new mayor.
Javier Villalobos defeated Veronica Whitacre in the June 5 runoff election to win the position as McAllen mayor.
Villalobos won the election with 4,744 votes to Whitacre’s 4,538 votes. Villalobos won with 51.11 percent of the election total.
The new mayor had served as commissioner of McAllen’s district one since 2018.
The two candidates garnered the most votes in the initial city election in May.
Villalobos’s term will last four years.
“But Lawrence,” you say, “there’s no mention that he’s a Republican in that piece, and the Mayor is a theoretically non-partisan race. How do you know Javier Villalobos is a Republican?”
Mainly because he’s the former chairman of the the Hidalgo County Republican Party.
Javier Villalobos is a proven leader who cares deeply about the people of the Rio Grande Valley.
Congratulations @J_VillalobosLaw on becoming the next Mayor of McAllen! pic.twitter.com/nelPZgaaDh
— Texans for Abbott (@AbbottCampaign) June 6, 2021
McAllen, TX just showed that legal immigrants (who have no problems getting IDs to vote, contrary to what racist leftists claim) take issue with illegals flooding the border and being handed everything for free.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) June 6, 2021
Hidalgo County (county of McAllen, TX) was Biden +17 in 2020 and Clinton +41 in 2016
Republicans just flipped a mayorship there tonight
— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) June 6, 2021
Henry Cuellar right now looking at the McAllen results #TX28 pic.twitter.com/0ceG7f0akw
— Will DiBugno (@DCLongIslander) June 6, 2021
There are a lot reasons the formerly deep-blue valley has turned distinctly purple: The deep unpopularity of hard-left social justice policies among culturally conservative Hispanics, the Biden Administration working overtime to undo all the work the Trump Administration did in securing the border, President Trump’s personal popularity with Hispanics, and the time and resources Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Republican Party have poured into the valley to make Republicans competitive there. If Democrats continue following their woke, soft-on-crime, open borders policies, expect Republicans to do even better along the border (and elsewhere) in 2022 than they did in 2020.
Tags: Elections, Greg Abbott, Hidalgo County, Hispanics, Javier Villalobos, McAllen, Republican Party of Texas, Republicans, Rio Grande Valley, Texas
the illegals in the united states escaped mexico. now that they are here they’ll become the biggest supporters of ending illegal migration from mexico.
expect Republicans to do even better along the border (and elsewhere) in 2022 than they did in 2020.
Assuming honest elections. Not a safe assumption anymore:-(. Expect DemonRats to turn the fraud machine up to 11 (or higher) at every opportunity. They know the media will cover for them.
“Expect DemonRats to turn the fraud machine up to 11”
if elections degrade to be all about physical force, we’re ready.