{"id":554784,"date":"2021-06-06T19:37:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T23:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=554784"},"modified":"2021-06-06T20:50:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:50:22","slug":"mcallen-texas-85-percent-hispanic-elects-republican-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcallen-texas-85-percent-hispanic-elects-republican-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"McAllen, Texas \u2014 85 Percent Hispanic \u2014 Elects Republican Mayor"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmcallen-texas-85-percent-hispanic-elects-republican-mayor%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=554784&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-307.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Along with the news Saturday that Republicans had won mayoralties in Fort Worth (population: 1 million) and Arlington (population 400,000), \u00a0there was a less-reported result from Texas but one with major significance \u2014 that a Republican had captured City Hall in McAllen (population: 140,000), which is roughly 85 percent Hispanic.<\/p>\n<p>The contest is particularly significant.\u00a0McAllen is a border city and voting came a week after a much-publicized incident in which U.S. Border Patrol agents saved several migrants from drowning in the Rio Grande as they were attempting to make it to the nearby town of Roma.<\/p>\n<p>More than a few Republicans suggest that continued controversy with the Biden Administration over its border policies will help Texas become even more of a \u201cred\u201d state than it has been.<\/p>\n<p>Following a hard-fought campaign, former Hidalgo County Republican Chairman Javier Villalobos was elected mayor of McAllen by 208 votes (51.14 percent) in a runoff against Democrat and City Commissioner Veronica Whitacre.<\/p>\n<p>Like all municipal races in the Lone Star State, the race in McAllen is nonpartisan.\u00a0But the partisan identities of both Villalobos and Whitacre was well-known throughout the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd McAllen has elected Republican mayors and city officials in the past,\u201d Hollis Rutledge, past Hidalgo County GOP Chairman and a former official of the Reagan and Bush-41 Administrations, told Newsmax, \u201cHidalgo County is one of the last holdouts of \u2018yellow dog Democrats\u2019 [Democrats who will vote their party line no matter what], but we make an exception here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rutledge noted that former President Donald Trump drew 28 per cent in McAllen in 2016 and 41 percent in \u201920.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Gizzi is chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax. For more of his reports,<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/insiders\/john-gizzi\/id-212\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go Here Now.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the news Saturday that Republicans had won mayoralties in Fort Worth (population: 1 million) and Arlington (population 400,000), \u00a0there was a less-reported result from Texas but one with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279399,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-307.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"McAllen, Texas \u2014 85 Percent Hispanic \u2014 Elects Republican Mayor","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-307.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"McAllen, Texas \u2014 85 Percent Hispanic \u2014 Elects Republican Mayor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554784","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=554784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}