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HOUSTONAn energized Democratic electorate wasnt enough to defeat Texas Sen. Ted Cruz this month, but in the states most populous county, it created a blue landslide.
Nearly every Republican in Harris County, home to Houston, was unseated on Nov. 6, including 59 judges and the top executive, Ed Emmett, a moderate who won in 2014 with 83% of the vote.
Mr. Emmett, whose official title is county judge and who was widely lauded for steering the county through the devastation of Hurricane Harvey last year, lost to political novice Lina Hidalgo, a Democrat who said she has never previously attended a meeting of the Harris County Commissioners Court, which she will soon oversee. The 27-year-old won by less than 2 percentage points and will now help run a metro area that encompasses some 4.6 million people, the third-most-populous county in the U.S.
The Harris County election drew national attention in part because 17 African-American women, all Democrats, won judgeships, a symbolic shift for one of the nations most diverse cities. But it also demonstrates the growing political divide between more liberal cities and conservative rural areas that is evident even in red states like Texas, where every elected statewide official is a Republican.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-blue-wave-wiped-out-republicans-in-the-largest-county-in-texas-1542709801
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)dalton99a
(81,468 posts)LeftInTX
(25,291 posts)Not one county wide Republican won in Bexar. Not one. We went from two Republican clerks and 24 Republican judges. They were all wiped out.
It was the Beto effect.
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)who knows, perhaps by 2024 Texas will go blue in the presidential election
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)Life is short, and there is no time to lose!
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)on the ticket as VP, it's possible. (or O'Rourke as president)