(5 Nov 2024)
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Rio Grande City, Texas – 5 November 2024
1. Wide of voters entering polling place
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Luis Mesa, Texas Voter:
"I voted for Donald Trump today and J.D. Vance. So, yeah, I voted for them. I was always like a lifelong Democrat. But this time around, I decided to change the Republican. I guess with the political landscape that is now, I felt that going Republican was the better choice, especially with the issues that are happening here. I mean, especially with immigration and everything like that that’s going on, I feel that Donald Trump has a better opportunity to fix those issues that we’re having here. And I feel like it’s time for a change. I feel like under Biden’s presidency, I mean, me personally, I didn’t I didn’t like his policies or what he’s done. And I feel with Harris also going for the Democratic candidate, I mean, she was vice president these past four years and all these changes that she said that were going to happen. I mean, why she waiting now that she’s become that she wants to become president, to, you know, do what she said she that she’s going to do. So I feel that, voting for Trump was the right choice."
3. Wide of voters entering polling place
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Unidentified Texas Voter:
"I’ve always been a Democrat. So this election was no different. I’ve always had the same idea, you know, with all the social services that we get, the things that we stand for, the women’s rights, the LGBT, gay lesbian rights and the rights for the people. I come from an immigrant family, and that’s also played a role. So that’s my main reasons, you know."
5. Wide of voters entering polling place
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Unidentified Texas Voter:
"I want a more humanitarian look at immigration versus hardcore. We don’t want to hear a stand. So primarily, I want I want a humane treatment for immigrants and hopefully a path to to making those that are here illegally a path forward to so they can become legal."
7. Wide of voters entering polling place
STORYLINE:
Texas voters who live near the southern border are sounding off about who their choices on Election Day.
Counties along the Texas-Mexico border made significant swings in 2020 toward Trump. The rightward shift represents a changing political landscape along the U.S.-Mexico border where border security has become a key issue for voters.
"I guess with the political landscape that is now. I felt that going Republican was the better choice, especially with the issues that are happening here," said Luis Mesa, who lives in Rio Grande City. "I mean, especially with immigration and everything like that that’s going on, I feel that Donald Trump has a better opportunity to fix those issues that we’re having here," he said.
President Biden won Hidalgo County, a reliably blue district, by less than half the margin that Hillary Clinton did in 2016. In rural Zapata County, Trump flipped the county altogether after Clinton won it by 33 percentage points four years prior.
The gains have led to Republicans to invest millions of dollars into what were once considered deep blue districts.
Democrats did, however, close the gap statewide in 2020 where Trump won Texas by less than 6 percentage points. It was the closest margin of victory for a GOP presidential nominee in Texas in decades.
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