2024: Tano Tijerina Announced On Fox News He Was Switching Parties From Democrat To Republican After Webb County Flipped Republican In The Presidential Race For The First Time In More Than 100 Years
December 2024: Tijerina Announced He Was Switching From The Democratic To Republican Party On Fox News
December 2024: Tijerina Announced He Was Switching From The Democratic To The Republican Party On Fox & Friends. “Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina, elected nearly a decade ago as the top executive of the border county that includes Laredo, announced Tuesday that he is switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. ‘Over the years, I’ve watched the Democratic Party shift further and further to the left and leaving the values that I hold dear to my heart,’ Tijerina said during an interview on Fox & Friends.” [Texas Tribune, 12/10/24]
November 2024: Webb County Flipped Republican In The Presidential Race For The First Time In More Than 100 Years
November 2024: Webb County Flipped Republican In The Presidential Race For The First Time In More Than 100 Years. “For the first time in more than 100 years, Webb County has flipped to red in a presidential race. In a historic shift, more than 50% of the votes in the county went to former President Donald Trump, marking a significant change in the county’s voting patterns. The last time a Republican candidate won the majority of Webb County’s votes was in the 1912 presidential election.” [KGNS News, 11/6/25]
- Trump Won 50.61% Of The Votes To Harris’s 48.48% In Webb County. [Webb County, Unofficial Election Results, 11/13/24]