With 48 days left until the election, Will Hurd – one of the nation’s most vulnerable House Republicans and most likely to lose his job – has chosen to put the party over country, leaving the door open to voting for the Republican Party’s racist candidate, Donald Trump.
Trump May Help Latino Democrat Flip Congressional Seat on Texas Border [EXCERPTS]
NBC News
By Victoria Defrancesco Soto
September 21, 2016
[…] CD-23 has been represented by four different congressmen and has been traded back and forth between parties, making it one of the less than 5 percent of House races in 2016 considered “toss-ups.”
It also is a majority-minority district making the partisan back-and-forth stand out even among swing districts, which are generally majority white. […]
[…] In presidential years Latinos turn out in higher numbers, turning CD-23 blue and in mid-term years more reliable Republican voters flip it back to red.
The Democrats have a bit of an advantage in this presidential year. Donald Trump doesn’t make things any easier for moderate GOP candidates. A recent poll from the Texas Democrats has Gallego with an eight-point lead.
[…] the question is whether Hurd can fight two battles – one against Gallego and one against Trump. Trump’s border wall and immigration rhetoric is hitting what is home for many of the district’s Latinos or close to it. And Trump’s recent doubling down on his restrictionist immigration policies has made life that much harder for Hurd.