Thread: Republican Wins Texas Special Election In District Hillary Won by 12 Percentage Point

Republican Wins Texas Special Election… In District Hillary Won by 12 Percentage Points!

by Cristina Laila September 18, 2018 219 Comments


Defeated Dem Gallego (Left); Republican winner Flores (Right)

Republican Pete Flores won the Senate District 19 seat in Texas on Tuesday–a crushing defeat for former state and U.S. Rep. Democrat Pete Gallego.

Flores and Gallego went head-to-head in the special election to replace former State Senator Carlos Uresti who lost his seat after he was convicted of 11 felony charges.
This district has not seen a Republican hold the seat in 139 years.
Andrew Phelps McCormick was the last Republican to hold this seat and he left office in 1879, reported My San Antonio.

My San Antonio reported:

Voters elected political newcomer Pete Flores to the Texas Senate on Tuesday, flipping a Democratic district red for the first time in 139 years and further bolstering Republicans’ supermajority in the chamber ahead of the November elections.
A retired game warden, Flores defeated former state and U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego for the Senate District 19 seat after receiving backing from some of the state’s most prominent politicians, including Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and U.S. Sens John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.
“We conservatives are conservative in the way we make approaches. The gun fight’s not over until the last shot’s fired,” Flores told the Express-News after Gallego conceded in a phone call just before 9 p.m. “The last shot’s been fired.”
Flores’ win marked an incredible upset in a district that political observers said shouldn’t have been competitive for Republicans. Low turnout in special elections and high-level GOP interests in preserving a Senate supermajority helped push Flores across the line, they said.

Hillary Clinton won District 19 by over 12 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election!
Pete Flores celebrated with an election victory party Tuesday evening.

Pete Flores‏ @PeteFlores_TX
Great turnout at the Election Night Gathering! Come by if you can! #SD19








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Democrats and the press just as sure about midterms as they were in 2016

September 19, 2018

As the media press doom and gloom onto the supposed mood of Republicans, quite a few bright spots are emerging out in the hinterlands, leaving Democrats looking a little overconfident.

By Monica Showalter

Well, surprise, surprise: Look what we have here, coming in from Texas:

A Republican candidate won an upset victory Tuesday night in the runoff for a Texas state Senate seat that had been held by Democrats for more than a decade.
Pete Flores (R), a conservative former leader of the state Parks and Wildlife Department's law enforcement division, won a surprise victory over Democrat Pete Gallego.

So much for the unstoppable blue wave. Cripes, the Democrats are losing seats they thought were gimmes. And here's some more good news for Republicans from Texas:

Incumbent Republican Ted Cruz has opened a 9-point lead in his high-profile U.S. Senate race against Democrat Beto O'Rourke, according to a poll released Tuesday.
A survey of 807 likely voters by Quinnipiac University has Cruz with a lead of 54 percent to 45 percent over O'Rourke, the congressman from El Paso, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.

Nothing like a little mobilization of the voters after a Beto scare. Ted did that, and now he's looking at nine points.
Meanwhile, here's some good news from California:

California's two candidates for governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom and Republican John Cox, will debate live in studio on KQED's Forum program at 10 a.m. on Oct. 8 – the first time they have shared a stage since before the June primary.

Up until then, Newsom had resisted any form of debate, a form of arrogance commonly seen in frontrunners with insuperable leads. Maybe he noticed how Cox was creeping up on him in the polls – and how well turning his nose up at a debate worked out for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's long-incumbent opponent in New York. New York's Rep. Joseph Crowley famously refused to debate Ocasio-Cortez, which, in light of her stupid post-victory statements since, might have been an easy takedown. Bottom line: Newsom is on his backfoot.
Despite this barrage of promising pow! pow! pow! news for Republicans, the press is still in blue-waveville, calling a rout for Republicans in the upcoming midterms. Look at what Axios's Mike Allen ran as his top three news picks for today, complete with a GIF graphic portraying an GOP elephant dripping a flood of tears:
1 big thing: Republicans are privately worried
2. Game change: Dems use tax cut against GOP
3. Exclusive poll: Majority believe Woodward, Anonymous
Does that sound like the world where Ted Cruz is up nine points in the polls, the GOP snatched a blue statehouse safe seat from the Democrats, and California's Gavin Newsom is clearly on his backfoot against the GOP's John Cox in the governor's race? I really wonder.
There was the doom-and-gloom GOP internal poll that Rick Moran wrote about yesterday, and it does underscore the hard contest these midterms could be for Republicans. But polls, as Jack Hellner points out today, have been notoriously wrong in the age of Trump. What I sense now is some crazy overconfidence by the Democrats, slightly redolent of 2016, back when Democrats were convinced that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had it in the bag and woke up to the Mother of All Hangovers when President Trump won the election.
Two things are operative, and they are worth noting.
Mobilization matters, as Silvio Canto notes on the blog today, here. The heavy surge of effort to back Ted Cruz against his Democratic opponent, Beto Rourke, seems to be now paying off. And as Rick noted in his piece yesterday, complacency is actually the GOP's biggest enemy.
The flip-side is that we are seeing evidence of Democrat overconfidence, buttressed by an allied media.
What it says here is that nothing is set in stone, and if the Republicans want to consolidate the gains of their Trump revolution, it's perfectly doable. They just need to take nothing for granted, as Democrats seem to be doing, and just get busy.

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No way any conservative should stay home in November

Pete Flores -vs- Pete Gallego…

Posted on September 22, 2018
by sundance

A Texas senate seat flipped from democrat to republican this week for the first time in 139 years. Republican Pete Flores, a former game warden, defeated former Democratic Congressman Pete Gallego in a senate district covering around 800,000 border residents. Because the district is 73 percent African-American and Hispanic, the republican victory has gained a little bit of attention [SEE HERE].


Many of the articles citing the republican victory point to the strong campaigning by Pete Flores, and then jump to highlight the possibilities represented by this large district victory. All of that is true. However, the one important aspect missing within all political analysis is a failure to recognize that Latino votes are *not* monolithic.

A Puerto Rican Hispanic is to a Mexican Hispanic as a New Yorker is to a Montanan. While it is true culturally the Puerto Rican base is favorable to democrats, the South American and Cuban vote is not politically analogous. Nor is the Mexican voting bloc identifiable with either <acronym title="Google Page Ranking"><acronym title="Google Page Ranking">PR</acronym></acronym>, Cuban or South American. Each group is NOT interchangeable; and each group has its own cultures and identities that are not in line with Democrat Socialism – actually, far from it.
Go to a Mexican quinceanera celebration and you will not find a hot-bed of purple-haired activists railing against ‘toxic-masculinity’. Exactly the opposite is true. The role of a strong male head-of-household, and protector, is ingrained within the culture. When Donald Trump first began campaigning, we pointed out the Latino cultural connection to his message based on strength, national pride and ‘the patròne effect‘.

[…] It is absurdly common for this reality to be misunderstood by business interests and the media. Whether this misunderstanding is accidental, naivete’ or intentionally done for ideological broadcast purposes is essentially a moot point; the truth is divergent from the MSM presentation. (more)

It is a big mistake to view any group based on inappropriate politically motivated identity politics. The republican victory by Pete Flores is a prime example of how all candidates need to include everyone as part of the MAGA coalition.



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What's up with Hispanics and Democrats?

A Latin indicator for the 2018 election?

October 15, 2018
By Silvio Canto, Jr.

Have you seen the media articles about Democrats fearing a lackluster Hispanic turnout in two weeks? I saw another one today:

Democrats are worried about Latino voters in the midterms, fearing that weak efforts to energize a core element of their base could imperil their bid to win control of Congress in next month's elections.
From the Sun Belt battlegrounds of Nevada and Arizona to sprawling turf wars in Texas and Florida, there are signs that the Hispanic vote – which party leaders have long hoped would be the foundation of future electoral success – has yet to flourish in their favor this year.

We will learn on election day, but let me say a couple of things about Texas:
We had an election down in South Texas, and the GOP won. No GOP candidate had won that state Senate district in 130-something years.
It is big majority-Hispanic district. What happened to the blue wave?
The blue team took the day off, or something like that, and a GOP Hispanic with a tough message on immigration won easily.
Was it an aberration or the canary in the mine? Keep your eyes on the other canary.
In May, the Democrat runoff had a historic low turnout: Democrats had their worst runoff turnout in almost a century!
How do you explain that runoff?
On election day 2016, I was invited to the local Telemundo channel to discuss the election. We were on through the night and provided commentary along the way. By midnight, it looked as though it was over for Mrs. Clinton, and the moderator asked for my explanation.
I told them that the Democrats needed a better message than simply "I hate Trump" or he is a "racista."
That was then, and this is now.
Today, the message is more complicated because Hispanics are enjoying a good economy.
We will see on election day, but I repeat: the Democrats need a message. Hating Trump goes over well in the leftist corners, but most Hispanics are not leftists.
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