Latino vote helped thwart Texas Republicans' redistricting effort – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Latino vote helped thwart Texas Republicans’ redistricting effort  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Last year, the Republican-controlled Texas legislature redrew its congressional maps aimed at giving the GOP five more seats. The GOP lost all four redrawn districts in the heavily Latino Rio Grande Valley. Last year, the Republican-controlled Texas legislature redrew its congressional maps in a controversial mid-decade redistricting effort aimed at giving the GOP five more House seats. Encouraged by President Donald Trump's strong showing among Hispanic voters in 2024, they concentrated on four districts in the heavily Latino Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. But the Latino vote in Texas swung back from the president on Tuesday, driven by its dissatisfaction with Trump's immigration policy and the economy, according to ABC News' Voter Poll.

Republicans failed to flip any of the Rio Grand Valley districts — losing by double-digits in all of them — and ended up with a net loss of one House seat. Hispanic voters comprise more than 30% of eligible Texas voters and are especially concentrated in four counties in the Rio Grande Valley, where they make up more than 90% of the population, according to U.S. census data. ABC News' Voter Poll showed 67% of Hispanics who voted in the state's Senate race said the Trump administration's actions on immigration enforcement have gone too far, compared to 45% of white Senate voters. Jon Taylor, a University