In Texas, Democrats had hoped to turn Texas blue in the 2020 election. President-elect Joe Biden lost the state by just six points and Republicans gained support in southern Texas along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Valerie Gonzalez, a reporter with The Monitor newspaper in McAllen, Texas, who has been gathering local reactions.
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