Current:Home > ScamsTexas Democrats’ longtime chairman steps down after big losses continue for the party -NextFrontier Finance
Texas Democrats’ longtime chairman steps down after big losses continue for the party
View
Date:2025-04-12 23:20:29
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The longtime leader of the Texas Democratic Party announced his resignation Friday after another election cycle of lopsided defeats and voters making a dramatic swing toward the GOP on the heavily Hispanic southern border.
Gilberto Hinojosa, a native of the Rio Grande Valley, has served as the Texas Democratic Party chair since 2012. During that time, Democrats have not won any statewide offices and badly lost key races Tuesday.
All but two counties along the Texas-Mexico border, long considered Democratic strongholds, turned red for Trump. It included Hidalgo and Cameron, the two most populous counties in the Rio Grande Valley. President-elect Donald Trump easily won Texas by 14 points, which was more than double his margin of victory in 2020 and a sign of eroding Democratic support.
Hinojosa said he would step down in March 2025.
“In the days and weeks to come, it is imperative that our Democratic leaders across the country reevaluate what is best for our party and embrace the next generation of leaders to take us through the next four years of Trump and win back seats up and down the ballot,” Hinojosa said.
His announcement also came just a day after issuing an apology over comments he made to Austin public radio station KUT after Tuesday’s election. “You could, for example, you can support transgender rights up and down all the categories where the issue comes up, or you can understand that there’s certain things that we just go too far on, that a big bulk of our population does not support,” Hinojosa told KUT.
Hinojosa later issued an apology on social media, saying that LGBTQ+ persons in Texas “deserve to feel seen, valued and safe in our state and our party.”
veryGood! (545)
Related
- Friday the 13th luck? 13 past Mega Millions jackpot wins in December. See top 10 lottery prizes
- Mets have visions of grandeur, and a dynasty, with Juan Soto as major catalyst
- Israel lets Palestinians go back to northern Gaza for first time in over a year as cease
- The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room
- All That You Wanted to Know About She’s All That
- The Super Bowl could end in a 'three
- New Mexico governor seeks funding to recycle fracking water, expand preschool, treat mental health
- The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
- 'No Good Deed': Who's the killer in the Netflix comedy? And will there be a Season 2?
- 2025 'Doomsday Clock': This is how close we are to self
Ranking
- Jamie Foxx gets stitches after a glass is thrown at him during dinner in Beverly Hills
- Federal Spending Freeze Could Have Widespread Impact on Environment, Emergency Management
- Average rate on 30
- Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
- The Grammy nominee you need to hear: Esperanza Spalding
- Appeals court scraps Nasdaq boardroom diversity rules in latest DEI setback
- Justice Department, Louisville reach deal after probe prompted by Breonna Taylor killing
- Could your smelly farts help science?
Recommendation
A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
Could Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft reunite? Maybe in Pro Football Hall of Fame's 2026 class
2 killed, 3 injured in shooting at makeshift club in Houston
Jamie Foxx gets stitches after a glass is thrown at him during dinner in Beverly Hills
Appeals court scraps Nasdaq boardroom diversity rules in latest DEI setback
Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people
The Super Bowl could end in a 'three
Stamford Road collision sends motorcyclist flying; driver arrested