WaPo: “The signs of a political shift in the reliably blue counties that line Texas’s southern border with Mexico had been coming.
Local GOP offices were emerging in places like Starr County that had not voted for a Republican for president in a century. Party workers were actively reaching out to residents who felt forgotten as illegal border crossings rose and their communities struggled to handle the influx. And Donald Trump’s message was clear: He’d bring order and prosperity back into their lives.
The result on Tuesday was a resounding red wave in a part of the country that has come to symbolize the nation’s division on immigration. Yet Democratic and Republican party leaders said the Biden administration’s border failings are only part of what explains it.”