The GOP's Border Blues
December 14, 2018 at 9:29 am EST By Taegan Goddard 74 Comments
First Read: For all the talk about Trumps border-wall demand in the current fight to keep the government open, its worth reminding everyone of the GOPs midterm performance in the states along the U.S.-Mexico border. That performance? It wasnt that great.
In California, the GOP got wiped out, losing seven House seats, the gubernatorial race, and Republicans didnt even have a candidate in the Senate matchup due to the states Top 2 primary system.
In Arizona, the GOP won the gubernatorial race, but it lost a Senate seat, as well as the competitive AZ-2 House contest.
In New Mexico, Democrats won up and down the ballot for governor, senator, and it picked up the NM-2 House seat.
And in Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz barely won his Senate race, while Democrats picked up two congressional seats outside of Dallas (TX-32) and Houston (TX-7).
Now much of that poor performance by the GOP could be attributed to the sizable portion of the Latino vote in these four states, or the Dem performance in the suburbs in Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. But as President Trump tried to make the last weeks of the midterms about immigration and that caravan, note the states where that message appeared to fall flat the ones closest to the border.
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