{"id":1015503,"date":"2021-11-15T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015503"},"modified":"2021-11-15T14:58:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:58:38","slug":"texas-state-rep-ryan-guillen-switches-parties-becomes-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-state-rep-ryan-guillen-switches-parties-becomes-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas State Rep. Ryan Guillen Switches Parties, Becomes Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-state-rep-ryan-guillen-switches-parties-becomes-republican%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015503&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Texas State Rep. Ryan Guillen officially switched political parties Monday, changing from a Democrat to a Republican, The Texas Tribune reported.<\/p>\n<p>Guillen announced the change Monday at a news conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/11\/15\/ryan-guillen-texas-house-switch-party\/\">according<\/a> to the outlet. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Republican House Speaker Dade Phelan were present for the event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.832335329341\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: Texas Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanGuillen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RyanGuillen<\/a> (D-Rio Grande City), has switched his party affiliation to the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>He makes the announcement alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovAbbott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovAbbott<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DadePhelan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DadePhelan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattRinaldiTX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MattRinaldiTX<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CatParksTX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CatParksTX<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TXGOPCaucus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TXGOPCaucus<\/a> chair <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimMurphy133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JimMurphy133<\/a>, &amp; other House Republicans. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/txlege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#txlege<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VogHtc0nL6\">pic.twitter.com\/VogHtc0nL6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brad Johnson (@bradj_TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bradj_TX\/status\/1460276983611465728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Republican Party expressed its support for its new party member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud to welcome state Representative Ryan Guillen to the GOP,\u201d&nbsp;Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gop.com\/press-release\/rnc-statement-on-state-rep-ryan-guillen-d-tx-switching-to-the-republican-party\/\">wrote<\/a> in an official statement. \u201cThe Republican Party is the party of faith, freedom, and opportunity, and we will continue to stand for these ideals in Texas and across the country. With trailblazers like Representative Guillen, we will continue to make gains in South Texas and grow the party in our way to victories up and down the ballot in 2022.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/06\/north-las-vegas-mayor-switches-parties-citing-socialist-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: North Las Vegas Mayor, Lifelong Democrat, Switches Parties, Citing \u2018Socialist Takeover\u2019 in Nevada)<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guillen won reelection as a Democrat in 2020, the Republican State Leadership Committee said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rslc.gop\/press-releases\/texas-house-democrat-ryan-guillen-switches-to-republican-party\">press release<\/a> acknowledging Guillen\u2019s announcement. Guillen represents House District 31.<\/p>\n<p>Guillen was <a href=\"https:\/\/thetexan.news\/south-texas-democrat-switches-parties-to-the-gop\/\">reportedly<\/a> \u201crated the most conservative Democrat in the Texas House\u201d in \u201cfour out of the last five legislative sessions.\u201d Guillen backed the <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.house.texas.gov\/hjrnl\/87r\/pdf\/87RDAY41FINAL.PDF#page=5\">Texas Heartbeat Act<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.house.texas.gov\/hjrnl\/87r\/pdf\/87RDAY53FINAL.PDF#page=150\">constitutional carry bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFriends, something is happening in South Texas, and many of us are waking up to the fact that the values of those in Washington, D.C., are not our values, not the values of most Texans,\u201d Guillen said, according to the Texas Tribune. \u201cThe ideology of defunding the police, of destroying the oil and gas industry and the chaos at our border is disastrous for those of us who live here in South Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas State Rep. Ryan Guillen officially switched political parties Monday, changing from a Democrat to a Republican, The Texas Tribune reported.Guillen announced the change Monday at a news conference, according &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}