"The border crisis is on their doorstep and they were begging people ... As ProPublica pointed out in a recent analysis of the Latino shift near the border, "Texas Democrats have long viewed the state’s growing Latino population as their ticket to ...

The former president captured 55% of Latino voters in the state, according to exit polls. He also won 14 out of the 18 counties within 20 miles of the border, a number that doubled his 2020 performance in the Latino-majority region.