{"id":414855,"date":"2026-08-23T21:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414855\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:12:10","slug":"recap-thousands-of-texans-turn-out-in-rural-texas-as-hinojosa-joins-pulido-and-talarico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414855\/","title":{"rendered":"RECAP: Thousands of Texans Turn Out in Rural Texas as Hinojosa Joins Pulido and Talarico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beeville, TX \u2013 Yesterday, Democratic nominee for Texas governor Gina Hinojosa joined Bobby Pulido and James Talarico for a concert in Beeville that shattered the venue\u2019s attendance record with over 2,500 attendees. Momentum is building in Texas\u2019 15th Congressional District\u00a0 where Trump won by 15 points in 2024 and <a href=\"https:\/\/riograndeguardian.com\/stories\/poll-hinojosa-leads-abbott-in-congressional-district-15,79535?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hinojosa now leads Greg Abbott by 5 points<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-6-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2254\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5045045045045045;width:516px;height:auto\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have to decide: is this going to be a Texas that is by and for the people, or is this a billionaire\u2019s world and we just live here?\u201d said Hinojosa. \u201cThat is the one fight in America. That is the fight for Texas. The fight to decide who Texas belongs to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I was a little girl growing up in South Texas, I knew who Texas belonged to. It belonged to all of us. Our beloved state, the land of opportunity, where you could be anything you wanted to be if you worked hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The record-breaking turnout comes as momentum continues to build behind Hinojosa \u2013 including in deep-red rural Texas \u2013 as she travels across the state to hear directly from Texans about the issues affecting their communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Beeville to Centerville to the Panhandle, Hinojosa\u2019s message of saving public schools, putting money in Texans\u2019 pockets, and ending the data center madness is breaking through: <a href=\"https:\/\/ginafortexas.com\/2026\/07\/dead-heat-fox-news-texas-poll-shows-hinojosa-within-one-point-in-governors-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent polls<\/a> show the governor\u2019s race within the margin of error, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/19\/how-data-centers-and-power-lines-could-turn-texas-governors-race-blue-01041065\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new reporting<\/a> finds Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2026\/08\/11\/rural-texas-data-center-opposition-is-scrambling-conservative-orthodoxy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bleeding support<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/19\/how-data-centers-and-power-lines-could-turn-texas-governors-race-blue-01041065\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rural communities<\/a> as Texans push back against data centers and schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beeville, TX \u2013 Yesterday, Democratic nominee for Texas governor Gina Hinojosa joined Bobby Pulido and James Talarico for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-414855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}