Party switching seems to be the latest trend in a political landscape that has the electorate fuming mad. The game of switcheroo is making noise and news, most recently in Texas, as the border crisis is all but ignored in the Swamp. What has Democrats most befuddled and alarmed, though, is that it isn’t just voters changing sides. Now state and local officials are dropping the D and posting the R by their names.

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What’s driving the Democrats in the middle over to the GOP? It’s a real head-scratcher – or maybe not.

Southwest Texas is under immense pressure and strapped financially thanks to illegal immigrant health care, housing, and food costs as people are allowed to cross the border willy-nilly. Burdened with the responsibility to American citizens first and foremost, and consistently disappointing those voters, it seems some Democrat lawmakers would rather switch than fight.

Some notables include Kenedy County Attorney Allison Strauss, Kleberg County Attorney Kira Talip Sanchez, Pecos County Sheriff Thomas Perkins, Terrell County Precinct 3 Commissioner Arnulfo Serna, and state Reps. Ryan Guillen and J.M. Lozano.

As well as the push factor of border and economic dysfunction that many of the party switchers blame on the Biden administration, there is also the pull factor: following the voters.

That Hispanics ideologically identify with the Democratic Party is a common refrain of the left that year by year appears to be crumbling. Instead, pay attention to Democrat Representative Henry Cuellar, a ten-term US congressman from south Texas who publicly stated on the record, “Aside from our Mexican heritage, much of South Texas has demographic similarities with some of the more conservative strongholds and white rural communities in the state.”