Gina Hinojosa ends Republican hold on Texas governor
Projections put the Democratic state representative ahead of the three-term Republican, making her Texas’s first Hispanic governor after decades of GOP control.
US media on Tuesday projected Democrat Gina Hinojosa beating three-term Republican Governor Greg Abbott in Texas.
The win would end about three decades of Republican control of the Texas governor’s office and make Hinojosa the first Hispanic elected to lead the state.
No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since 1994, described as the longest such drought in the United States.
State Representative James Talarico was also projected to win Texas’s US Senate race over Trump-backed Republican Ken Paxton.
Voto Latino said Latino turnout, affordability worries and immigration enforcement drove the Texas results, after it registered about 400,000 voters there.