One of the most populous, fast-growing, and diverse states in the U.S., Texas is generally considered to be a red state, not having voted Democratic in a presidential election since southernerJimmy Carter won it in 1976 and with Republicans holding all statewide offices since 1999. Texas’s location in the American South and largely in the greater Bible Belt has given the Republican Party the upper hand in the state in recent decades.[2] Nonetheless, Texas was considered by some to be potentially competitive, as the state had not backed a Republican for president by double digits since it favored Mitt Romney in 2012, which was largely credited to the fast-growing Texas Triangle, which trended leftwards in some elections, namely in the closely-contested 2018 U.S. Senate race and the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which both saw the Metroplex county of Tarrant and the Greater Austin counties of Williamson and Hays flip blue for the first time in decades. However, in the 2020 elections, predominantly HispanicSouth Texas shifted significantly rightward, a trend that the rest of the state followed in the 2022 midterms.[3][4] Trump ultimately won Texas by a margin of over 1.5 million votes, the second-largest margin of victory for any presidential candidate in Texas history.[5] Trump also won 242 out of the state's 254 counties, the most for a Republican since 1972.[citation needed]
Former Republican President Donald Trump ran for re-election to a second non-consecutive term after his defeat in the 2020 election.[8] Having carried Texas by single-digit margins in the past two presidential elections (by a 9% margin in 2016 and by 5.6% in 2020), Trump once again carried The Lone Star State, but with a decisive victory margin of nearly 14%. Trump significantly outperformed his polling averages in the state and became the first presidential candidate to win Texas by double digits since Mitt Romney in 2012, possibly seeing a reversion of the blue trend that Texas had seen in recent years. According to exit polls, 55% of Latinos in the state voted for Trump.[9] Data also showed that Trump made large inroads with Asians in Texas, who broke 58% Republican.[10] Trump received over six million votes, becoming the first presidential candidate to achieve this feat in Texas and setting a record for the most raw votes received in the state, as well as the largest raw vote total ever received by a Republican presidential candidate in any state in American history. This was also the first time a Republican candidate won the majority of both Asian and Hispanic voters in Texas. Such rightward trends in Latino and Asian voters were replicated nationwide in other states.
^"Republican victories show Texas is still far from turning blue". The Texas Tribune. November 9, 2022. As large as the cities are and how Democratic that they are, Texas Democrats still don't have a way to get past that red wall of rural West Texas, [Drew Landry] said. Rural Texas still rules the day. I was seeing some very, very close numbers before a lot of the rural counties reported [election returns], and once they did, it just blew the door open for Abbott.
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