Considering the way Trump's 2nd administration is playing out, Texas governor Greg Abbott has a big challenge on his hands in Harris County

 
Where the population is nearly one-third Hispanic.

Election results and map:  Wikipedia

3rd party votes:  18.7% in 1992, 5.6% in 1996, 4.4% in 2016

(Alabama segregationist George Wallace 

received 18.3% of the vote in 1968)

Headline:  The Texas Tribune, 11/21/2025

The population of Harris County was about 1.6 million in 1968.  Today it is slightly more than 5 million.

Alejandro Serrano reports:

The county, where one in six Texans live, is critical to both parties’ statewide ambitions. It has been blue for about a decade after spending another decade as a massive purple county that voted for George Bush in 2004, Barack Obama in 2008 and again, just barely, four years later — but also kept popular Republicans in local offices. 

Then President Donald Trump’s ascent erased most ambiguity. The last time Trump was in the White House, Democrats swept the county in the 2018 midterms. Among the dethroned Republicans — 59 judges among them — was then-County Judge Ed Emmett, who had until then enjoyed wide support until he was defeated by Lina Hidalgo, a 27-year-old who had never attended a meeting of the commissioners court she would soon preside over. 

Since then, the county with Houston at its center has remained a reliable foil to Texas state government, which has been dominated by Republicans for three decades. [emphasis added]