Mayra Flores’s Victory in a Blue Texas District Is a Dark Portend of Things to Come for Democrats – Opinion

Red wave coming, and Republican Mayra Flores represents the first trickle.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla/SpaceX, supported Mayra Flores yesterday. He said it was the first time that he had ever voted Republican in their lives. However, it is not clear if Flores’ endorsement inspired others to vote. Flores flipped 34th Congressional District from Rio Grande Valley blue to red.

It’s a district that had voted for Joe Biden by +13 points, but apparently, the time of the Democrats is over there as Flores defeated her Democrat opponent, Dan Sanchez, with 51 percent of the vote to his 43 percent. This district has 84 percent Hispanics.

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It’s a solid outcome but it does leave some questions hanging in the air. First, Musk is now the kingmaker of American politics. What is the Hispanic community’s relationship with Democrats? Are they both? Are they both?

Flores seems to believe that earning Musk’s vote was a big deal.

It was surreal to wake up the next morning, after all that has happened in 24 hours. Earning Elon Musk’s vote was just the icing on the cake and I can’t wait to work with his team! It’s worth fighting for the American Dream🇺🇸 @elonmusk#SaveAmerica #TX34

— Mayra Flores For Congress 🇺🇸🦅 (@MayraFlores2022) June 15, 2022

And she’s right.

While Musk is a very popular man, he represents more than just a CEO who’s captured the hearts of Americans. Musk made openly the switch from Republican to Democrat with Ronald Reagan’s quote echoing behind him.

“I didn’t leave the party, the party left me.”

Musk wasn’t the only canary in the coal mine. For a multitude of reasons, millions of Americans are tired of the Democrats and that is manifesting in different places. Biden’s popularity is sinking like an anvil and shows no signs of slowing down. Former President Donald Trump has a higher approval rating, and that’s despite the January 6 hearing circus.

Polls also show that Republicans are more motivated than Democrats to win the next election by leaps, bounds. Democrats lack a leader and a strategy, which is evident. They are failing to build a movement around a favorite issue. Even Democrat strategists seem disillusioned.

(READ: Democrats are Leaderless and Losing)

A red wave isn’t hard to see coming, and GOP candidates are riding it right into office.

It is important to be very clear that the red wave was not a Republican invention, but a Democrat one. They lost because of their actions as a Democrat party. With the exception of a few sociopolitical groups that can still be easily manipulated, they turned their back on everybody. The issue for them is that every time they’ve tried to convince anyone else, their arguments got swallowed up by the price at the pump, the cost of groceries, the spike in crime, the open borders, the assault on their freedoms, or the attempt to brainwash their children.

Hispanics are changing their vote from D to R, largely because Democrats have been walking over them and still believe they can keep the vote. Hispanic voters tend to be socially conservative and have suffered from the radicalization of left-leaning Democrats. In the case of Flores’s district, the untended border that allows thousands of people in, including a massive criminal element, was a big factor.

It should also be noted that Flores’s district isn’t the first color shift to happen either. Ryan Guillen, a Rio Grande City Republican in Texas, changed his party affiliation from Democrat and became a Republican because he was fed up of D.C. party values being pushed on his neighbors. This was following the flip of  McAllen County Starr County, and Zapata County.

Democrats should be looking at Flores’s victory with abject horror and searching for what it was they did wrong in order to lose so much ground in so short of time.

However, they likely won’t. It’ll be up to Democrat voters to change the tune of the Democrat Party, but when that will be is anyone’s guess.