Monica De La Cruz

having moved to Republicans in 2024, potentially moving back into the Democratic column.

And there's a couple of districts there, the 28th, the 34th, and then the 15th, which is where Republican Monica de la Cruz is facing an unexpected hard race because of some real changes in Hispanic voter attitudes.

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Thank you all for listening.

Republicans no longer feeling bullish about pulling it off there.

You go to the neighboring district there of Monica de la Cruz, Republican incumbent.

This was another area helped made slightly more Republican, again, in hopes that they would be able to maintain it.

Bobby Polito, someone that Democrats continue to talk about bringing turnout in interesting ways that we will track on election night.

But be aware, Kentucky counts very slowly.

Then we got Texas 15th, Monica de la Cruz versus Bobby Polito.

Monica is the Republican.

Polito leads in most polls.

Deep, deep red Texas here.

Calshi, the polling market, has, and it's a race between Monica De La Cruz, she's the Republican, Bobby Polito, a Tejano singer, first little foray into politics, and he seems to be doing himself very, very well.

He is, according to Calshi, they have him at a 90% possible victory, the Texas polls show him up by seven points.

This is something the Republicans never thought was coming.

It's too close to call.

This guy, Bobby Pulido, a singer against Monica de la Cruz in Texas, already too close to call.

You know, he's a big Hispanic singer.

So I'm looking at a lot of these different races.

And, and you are, you get worried about those two.

Then you have, you know, Monica Dela Cruz wants his commodity.

It was been a rising star in house Republican circles, uh, Gabe Evans, Tom Barrett, and Kentucky six, Kentucky six.

It's a weird district.

And you're going to see in the three congressional seats in South Texas where you have Hispanic majorities, I think all three of them go Democratic.

Not only one of them is a Republican incumbent currently, but I believe Monica de la Cruz will probably lose on Tuesday night, which didn't need to happen.

But it's happening because, again, presidents can set policies.

In the end, it's the public who decide whether those policies can continue or not.

In CD 9, Republican Alex Mueller faces Democrat Letitia Gutierrez.

In CD32, Republican Jace Yarbrough faces Democrat Dan Barrios, and in CD35, Republican Carlos de la Cruz, the brother of U.S. Representative Monica de la Cruz, faces Democrat Johnny Garcia.

With Republicans in a more challenging environment now, it remains to be seen how much of an advantage Texas Republicans will have given themselves in redrawing these districts.

With Republicans in a more challenging environment now, it remains to be seen how much of an advantage the Texas GOP will have given itself in redrawing these districts, and how the counter-redistricting in other states will change the makeup of the US House.