The signs of a political shift in the reliably blue counties that line Texas’s southern border with Mexico had been coming. Local GOP offices were emerging in places like Starr County that had not voted for a Republican for president in a century.

While exit polls suggest that Harris won around 53% of the overall Latino vote in Texas, 54% of Latino men said they supported Trump — a dramatic swing from 36% four years ago.

Donald Trump has successfully flipped a Texas border county with a 97% Hispanic population that had loyally supported Democratic candidates for over a century. For 128 years, this county had stood as a

The former president captured 55% of Latino voters in the state, according to exit polls. He also won 14 out of the 18 counties within 20 miles of the border, a number that doubled his 2020 performance in the Latino-majority region.