{"id":2006432,"date":"2023-08-20T18:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T22:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-county-attorney-leaves-democratic-party-for-gop-over-border-crisis-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T22:23:04","slug":"texas-county-attorney-leaves-democratic-party-for-gop-over-border-crisis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-county-attorney-leaves-democratic-party-for-gop-over-border-crisis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas county attorney switches from Democratic to Republican party due to border crisis."},"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\">26<\/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-county-attorney-leaves-democratic-party-for-gop-over-border-crisis-2%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=2006432&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--><h2>A Democratic County Attorney in Texas Switches Parties \u200dAmid Border Crisis<\/h2>\n<p>Kira Talip Sanchez, \u200dthe current Kleberg County\u2064 attorney, made a \u200csurprising announcement at the 2024\u2062 Election Season \u200cKickoff \u2062event hosted by Hispanic Republicans of Texas PAC. She revealed that she has switched her political affiliation from the \u200bDemocratic Party to the Republican\u200c Party.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs County Attorney, I have been proud to work with law enforcement to ensure the safety of the citizens\u2062 of \u200bKleberg County,\u201d \u2062Sanchez said in a statement. \u201cThere is an \u2063unprecedented \u200bcrisis at our Southern Border. I \u200cbelieve that the GOP\u2019s policies\u2063 of law \u2064and order protecting\u2063 safety, and backing the blue best align with my values and the values of the citizens of Kleberg County. I \u2062look forward to working with my colleagues to keep South \u2062Texas safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sanchez has \u2064been serving as the county attorney since 2014. The position requires Texas residency\u2064 and \u2062is elected for four-year \u2063terms.<\/p>\n<p>As County \u200bAttorney, Sanchez oversees the Specialized Crimes and\u200c Narcotics Task \u2062Force. In recent months, \u200dTexas law\u2063 enforcement has successfully seized over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-county-attorney-leaves-democratic-party-for-gop-over-border-crisis-2\/\" title=\"Texas county attorney switches from Democratic to Republican party due to border crisis.\">426 \u2062million lethal doses<\/a> \u2062of fentanyl.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Voters and even candidates are switching to the Republican party\u2064 because Democrats no longer serve their interests,\u201d Hispanic Republicans\u200b of Texas\u2063 President Cassy Garcia said in a statement. \u201cThe best way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-county-attorney-leaves-democratic-party-for-gop-over-border-crisis\/\" title=\"Texas County attorney switches party affiliation from Democratic to Republican due to border crisis.\">continue bringing folks<\/a> over to the Republican party is to keep\u2063 pursuing policies that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-abuse-of-defense-production-act-will-drive-gas-prices-even-higher\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Abuse Of Defense Production Act Will Drive Gas Prices Even Higher\">promote economic prosperity<\/a>, keep our country safe, and support freedom. I\u2019d like to \u200bthank Attorney Talip Sanchez for joining us\u2063 tonight\u200b and for her work [for] Kleberg County,\u200d and I am excited to continue our outreach across \u200dTexas \u200cto bring more voters to the Republican Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According \u2062to Governor \u200bGreg Abbott&#8217;s\u2062 office, over 31,000 migrants have been relocated from \u2063Texas to cities such as Los\u2062 Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., \u2062and New York\u2064 City since April of\u2064 last year. Governor Abbott claims that the border towns in Texas are &#8220;overwhelmed and \u2063overrun&#8221; with migrants, leading to this action.<\/p>\n<p>Kleberg County is located in south Texas and \u200cencompasses part of the eastern coast of the Mexican Gulf. Approximately six percent of\u2062 its population is foreign-born, according to \u200bthe U.S. Census.<\/p>\n<h3>Sources:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kira Talip Sanchez, the Democratic county attorney in Texas, recently switched to the Republican Party amidst the ongoing border crisis. At the 2024 Election Season Kickoff event organized by Hispanic Republicans of Texas PAC, Sanchez announced her party change, becoming a member of the GOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2006433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006432","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}