Vela said he hasn’t fully studied the reasons for the losses there, “but my guess is that Democratic rhetoric made people feel like they were going to lose their jobs in the oil fields when these folks are out there earning upwards of $80,000 a year, and if it’s not that, they’re back at home looking for work in the $30,000 range.” “There were some surprises down-ballot in South Texas, on the border and in rural counties with significant Hispanic populations,” Vela said. Donald Trump flipped a trio of South Texas counties in Vela’s district that went for Hillary Clinton in 2016, including Jim Wells County, a longtime Democratic stronghold where Trump won nearly 55 percent of the vote. Vela pointed to parts of his own district, which stretches from Brownsville to just south of Luling, as evidence of the problem at hand for Democrats. If we’re serious about climate change and job creation, we have to be able to tell those individuals and those families, you know what, we’ve got alternatives.” “You can’t just tell people like that - we’re going to take your jobs away - and think they’re going to vote for you. ![]() “Clearly, the DNC has work to do in Texas,” Vela said in an interview with Hearst Newspapers. In the final weeks of the election, the Texas GOP raised alarms about Joe Biden’s plan to phase out fossil fuels in a state where 162,000 people were directly employed in oil drilling and related services. ![]() The party is getting hammered by more effective Republican messaging, he said.ĬRUZ CATCHES COMPLAINT: Dems say his election objection lent ‘credence to the insurrectionists’ cause He said the party needs to figure out better ways of talking about those issues to keep from backsliding further in a state Democrats have long hoped to flip. ![]() Vela will be one of four vice chairs helping to guide Democrats’ campaign efforts in 20.
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