Friday, May 5, 2023

The Art of the Texas Gerrymander: U.S. House District 24

 
Face-Off Mismatch
 
Beth Van Duyne (R-Irving) won 2nd term to Congress with 60% of the vote.



Mother Jones, 10/4/2021
In 2020, Democrat Candace Valenzuela, who was running to become the first Black Latina member of Congress, lost the closest congressional race in Texas to Republican Beth Van Duyne.   [48.8% to 47.5%]
She was considering running again in 2022 for Texas’ 24th congressional district, once a stronghold of suburban Republicanism between Dallas and Fort Worth, but when she saw the redistricting maps for the US House released by state Republicans last week, “it was viscerally shocking to me,” she said.  
Biden carried the 24th by five points in 2020, as the population of people of color surged in the suburbs and moderate white voters turned away from Donald Trump, but Republicans had transformed the district into a bastion of white Trumpism.


Related posts:
District 1.  (4/19/2023)
District 2.  (4/19/2023)
District 3.  (4/19/2023)
District 4.  (4/21/2023)
District 5.  (4/21/2023)
District 6.  (4/21/2023)
District 7.  (4/24/2023)
District 8.  (4/24/2023)
District 9.  (4/25/2023)
District 10.  (4/25/2023)
District 11.  (4/26/2023)
District 12.  (4/26/2023)
District 13.  (4/27/2023)
District 14.  (4/27/2023)
District 15.  (4/28/2023)
District 16.  (4/28/2023)
District 17.  (4/29/2023)
District 18.  (4/29/2023)
District 19.  (4/30/2023)
District 20.  (5/1/2023)
District 21.  (5/2/2023)
District 22.  (5/3/2023)
District 23.  (5/4/2023)

No comments: