Republican wins Texas House seat in District Biden won by 14

 Red States:

While all eyes were on Virginia last night, where Republican Glenn Youngkin pulled a massive upset, other elections were going on across the country. Candidates for local offices and state districts along with referendums on things like defunding the police occurred in places like Texas, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and there’s a big upset in Texas that suggests doom is coming for Democrats in 2022.

That occurred in San Antonio where the race of HD118 took place. Republican John Lujan came out victorious in the majority-Hispanic district that Democrats carried by double-digits the last time around.

Here’s a report on the results from the San Antonio Report.

Republican John Lujan defeated Democrat Frank Ramirez in a special election runoff for Texas House District 118 on Tuesday, reclaiming the seat he held in 2016.

The business owner and former firefighter ended the night with 286 more votes than Ramirez, a first-time candidate. The runoff was expected to be a tight race. At the beginning of the evening, Ramirez held a narrow lead in early voting and absentee ballots. Lujan won 51.2% of the vote.

That’s a 15% shift toward the GOP since 2020. This was a district that Donald Trump lost in 2016 and appeared to be trending heavily blue like other areas around Austin and San Antonio. Yet, Lujan was able to turn the conventional wisdom on his head, carrying a majority of the Hispanic vote along the way.

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It looks like the Hispanic vote is starting to trend Republican in Texas.  It was already happening in the Rio Grande Valley and now it has happened in San Antonio.  Don't be surprised if the issues were the economy and immigration.  I suspect Biden's incompetence and the Pelosi spending spree may also have been an issue.