Early Voting Data Suggests Shocking Shift

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Early voting data analysis from two primarily Hispanic counties along the Texas border suggests a shocking shift that could be a good indicator of what is to come for this year’s elections.

Speaking with Fox News, Hispanic politicians in Texas say that early voting data — which suggests Republicans are outpacing Democrats in voter enthusiasm and possibly voter turnout — may be indicative of a larger trend.

Fox News reports:

“A report from the political consulting company Ryan Data & Research shows that Republicans are 76% of the way to matching 2018 turnout in Cameron County, Texas along the southern border with Mexico with eight days remaining until Election Day. In Hidalgo County, which also sits on the border with Mexico, turnout is 65% of the way to matching 2018.

On the Democrat side, the party is only 59% of the way to matching 2018 turnout in Cameron County and 47% of the way in Hidalgo County.”

According to Hispanic political candidates and operatives in Texas, the early voting data indicates a larger trend of Hispanic voters, especially those within the Rio Grande Valley, shifting their support to GOP candidates in areas that were predominantly Democrat-controlled for decades.

“I’ve spent a lot of time in Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy and all the counties in the valley, and there has just been a very different vibe with Republican voters,” said Ben Armenta, Republican candidate for Texas Land Commissioner. “I meet with folks, and a high percentage of them are new, and they’re just engaged differently than they’ve been in the past.”

Armenta believes that a “new” and “different energy” has swept through Republican voters in the predominantly Hispanic Rio Grande Valley thanks to the GOP’s message of family values, border security and cracking down on crime.

“It’s about the issues that are impacting their home,” he said. “The issues that are impacting their pocket book, their schools, the crime in their neighborhoods. When as a Republican candidate, I’m talking to them and I just ask them even in the last 13 months of the Biden administration, ‘Are things better for you?’ The answer is, ‘No.’”

Despite what the left constantly claims, Hispanic voters actually care about illegal immigration. Armenta told Fox News that these voters in South Texas are especially effected by the issue, and support efforts by the GOP to secure the southern border.

“Border security is all about crime,” he said. “These voters, the Latino voters, are legal citizens.”

“These are people who, whether they are first generation or fifth or sixth generation Texans, came to the U.S. legally,” Armenta continued. “I am a third generation Mexican-American. My grandparents came here legally, and there is a right way to go about doing this. This is an anti-crime stance that the homeowners, the property owners — they don’t want illegal immigrants and aliens and criminals crossing their property. They don’t want the destruction. They’re not being reimbursed by the federal government when their crops are destroyed, their fields are trampled.”

Ivan Andarza, spokesman for Hispanic Republicans of Texas, agreed with Armenta’s assessment of the issues and the early voting data, telling Fox News that border security is a major issue that has caused Hispanic voters to vote Republican.

“Drugs are coming across the border, cartels are using migrants to flood the border in a way where everybody is bogged down with them and everyone else runs across it,” Andarza said. “We’re living that down there, so when we hear that everything is fine on the border and we don’t need a border wall anymore, it’s just at odds with what people are living down there. That has kind of turbocharged the movement that was already happening with the way that Democrats have changed over the past few years.”

Another Republican candidate, former Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman, who is now running in the primary for Texas attorney general, spoke with Fox News about the sudden rise in Hispanic Republicans in Texas. According to Guzman, Hispanic values are more in line with conservatism than the woke left.

“Hispanic values are Republican values, and I think that message is resonating with Hispanics across the country,” said Guzman.

“I’m Hispanic,” she continued. “My parents had a third grade education. They put seven kids through college. They came here legally and upheld the rule of law. Hispanics don’t want an AOC socialist woke agenda. They want an agenda that provides opportunity. An agenda where they can see their children grow up and go from a factory like me to the Texas Supreme Court. It’s just common sense. Hispanics want a country where freedom reigns and more opportunity is available no matter where you come from. AOC and the woke liberals don’t offer that. They offer a socialist agenda that wants to keep people in their place. We don’t want that as Hispanics; we reject it.”

Aaron Peña, who is running as a judicial candidate for the Texas Thirteenth District Court of Appeals, believes that Texas Democrats have “ignored” Hispanic voters and “taken the Hispanic community for granted.”

“We’re law-abiding; we worry about our safety; we worry about our economy; we love our country,” Peña said about Hispanic voters in South Texas. “And everything the current Democratic Party stands for is contrary to that.”

He also agreed that border security is a major issue for Hispanic voters, adding that members of his community are concerned about the fact that Democrats, especially Joe Biden, consistently attack the Border Patrol, which employs a workforce that is over 50% Hispanic.

“The attack on the Border Patrol is significant and very personal to me because I have relatives and friends at the Border Patrol,” Peña said. “Most of them are Hispanic, you know, or people from the border. They’re our friends or our neighbors, our cousins or relatives, and the attacks on them hit us personally. We take it personal because they’re simply trying to do their job. And they’re not getting any support from the current administration.”

Peña, who publicly left the Democratic Party to become a Republican in 2010, cited several negative effects of illegal immigration that aren’t often discussed.

“We feel it directly,” he said. “Our schools are being overcrowded because we’re required to take all persons, not necessarily all citizens. Our hospitals are overburdened. Our health care is in jeopardy because many of the people who come are carrying illnesses, and they’re released into the community.”

Both Andarza and Peña also mentioned that the Democrats’ support of abortion has turned off many Hispanic voters, who are largely Catholic and pro-life.

“Most of our people are Catholic, and they are pious Catholics,” Peña said. “They follow their traditions, and one of those traditions is respecting life, and the Democratic Party no longer tolerates a pro-life Democrat.”

“We’re going to continue to see the growth of Hispanics in the Republican Party,” Andarza told Fox News. “It will be Hispanics who keep Texas red.”

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