We are very much a Red State, the Left has been targeting Texas, each election they claim they'll turn us purple or blue...and it doesn't happen.  We do have large communities of illegals and other hispanic populations tho, who are slaves to the Dems, as many blacks still are. That sort of pandering does not work as well here as it does in say California or New York but Soros' money is here, youbetcha. That district has historically voted as they were told to vote, that cycle of over a hundred years is broken! It is a State seat, not Federal and Texas boasts a supermajority of RED in our State house but that particular seat was blue for over a hundred years.  MAGA turned it Red. Texans tend to be independent, we don't want MUCH government and what we allow needs to be honest. For instance, we only let our State legislature meet every two years for a couple months....we figure they cannot rape us too bad if we don't let them sit around all the time making troubles. So they have to figure budgets in advance and look further down the road, then leave and go home, come back in about a year and a half to do it again.  Works well for us, we would happily accept that schedule for Federal government too.