Texas' minority GOP voters: Republican allies have vanished
DALLAS -- Packed into the Christian Chapel Temple of Faith on a rainy Sunday evening this month were plenty of the minority voters Texas Republicans say have kept their party in power even as the state’s demographics shift in favor of Democrats.
“[When] you say, ‘I’m fiscally conservative,’ people look at you kinda strange, like how can that be?“ said Deborah Smith, a leader of the multiethnic Dallas Area Interfaith, who is black. “Just because you care about people [doesn’t] mean you just want to print money and blow it up.”
Texas Republicans have long credited their focus on pocketbook issues for their unusually high political support among minority voters — particularly the Hispanic community that’s expected to overtake whites as the state’s largest population group in 2022.
Yet headed into an election where minority voters are increasingly at odds with the policies of President Donald Trump, Texas Republicans who’ve long maintained good relationships with those voters are often not showing up.
“The same night I was out with 2,000 Indians, now, are those people of color?” said Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, who said he skipped the interfaith forum to attend a previously-scheduled event with Indian-American constituents instead.
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