{"id":92418,"date":"2022-02-28T17:11:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=92418"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:12:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T17:12:04","slug":"after-trump-surge-a-liberal-democrat-in-south-texas-shifts-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=92418","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;After Trump Surge, a Liberal Democrat in South Texas Shifts Tactics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/25\/us\/politics\/latino-politics-jessica-cisneros.html?referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times: <\/a>&#8220;In South Texas, another test is developing over the power of identity politics and whether liberals can answer the fears that conservatives are stoking about \u201copen borders,\u201d \u201ccritical race theory\u201d and rising crime. In the primary campaign for Texas\u2019 28th district, it is Mr. Cuellar\u2019s experience versus Ms. Cisneros\u2019s storytelling: the powerful and connected versus the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JCisnerosTX\/status\/1496139564603387908?s=20&amp;t=zT8p5aSny_i8zENNB0RLwg\" target=\"_blank\">underdogs, the community, the \u201cpueblo.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been many changes here since Ms. Cisneros first challenged Mr. Cuellar, but the most significant may have been the shock for both parties of seeing Hispanic voters lurch toward Mr. Trump in 2020. Zapata County, just south of here, is heavily Latino; Hillary Clinton won it by more than 30 points in 2016, then it went to Mr. Trump by about five points. Ms. Clinton\u2019s 60-point margin in Starr County, which is 96 percent Latino, shriveled to a five-point advantage for Mr. Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Ms. Cisneros is running a campaign against the 17-year incumbent that could easily have been engineered by a Republican. She still favors Medicare for All, a $15 minimum wage, more liberal immigration policies and abortion rights, but those have not been her focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, she has played up her biography and hit Mr. Cuellar hard on rising prices. She has portrayed him as a Washington insider, greasing his pockets with money from big corporations, and presented herself as embodying the struggling community he left behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;In South Texas, another test is developing over the power of identity politics and whether liberals can answer the fears that conservatives are stoking about \u201copen borders,\u201d \u201ccritical race theory\u201d and rising crime. In the primary campaign for Texas\u2019 28th district, it is Mr. Cuellar\u2019s experience versus Ms. Cisneros\u2019s storytelling: the powerful and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92419,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92418\/revisions\/92419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}