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Texas Democrats’ Longtime Chairman Steps Down

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press

AP News by AP News
November 8, 2024
in Politics, Public Safety, Texas Border Crisis, Texas Primaries, Top News
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Texas Democrats’ Longtime Chairman Steps Down

Chair of the Texas Democratic Party Gilberto Hinojosa speaks onstage ahead of the third Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by ABC News in partnership with Univision at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas on September 12, 2019. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

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McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The longtime leader of the Texas Democratic Party announced his resignation Friday after another election cycle of lopsided defeats and voters making a dramatic swing toward the GOP on the heavily Hispanic southern border.

Gilberto Hinojosa, a native of the Rio Grande Valley, has served as the Texas Democratic Party chair since 2012. During that time, Democrats have not won any statewide offices and badly lost key races Tuesday.

All but two counties along the Texas-Mexico border, long considered Democratic strongholds, turned red for Trump. It included Hidalgo and Cameron, the two most populous counties in the Rio Grande Valley. President-elect Donald Trump easily won Texas by 14 points, which was more than double his margin of victory in 2020 and a sign of eroding Democratic support.

AUSTIN, TX – JUNE 20: Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa speaks at a rally at the state Capitol on June 20, 2021 in Austin, Texas. The rally is one of many former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke is holding across Texas to fight SB7, a controversial voting bill that was derailed after house Democrats walked out of the session. The bill set limits on early voting hours, banned drive-through voting, made it a felony for officials to send unsolicited absentee ballot requests and lowered the standard for overturning an election based on fraud. Gov. Greg Abbott has vowed to call a special session on the measure. (Photo by Sergio Flores/Getty Images)

Hinojosa said he would step down in March 2025.

“In the days and weeks to come, it is imperative that our Democratic leaders across the country reevaluate what is best for our party and embrace the next generation of leaders to take us through the next four years of Trump and win back seats up and down the ballot,” Hinojosa said.

His announcement also came just a day after issuing an apology over comments he made to Austin public radio station KUT after Tuesday’s election. “You could, for example, you can support transgender rights up and down all the categories where the issue comes up, or you can understand that there’s certain things that we just go too far on, that a big bulk of our population does not support,” Hinojosa told KUT.

Hinojosa later issued an apology on social media, saying that LGBTQ+ persons in Texas “deserve to feel seen, valued and safe in our state and our party.”
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