Dallas Mayor Goes MAGA!

Dallas mayor flips to the Republicans.

Dallas is the 9th largest city in the United States. Dallas has 1.2 million residents.

It is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex which as a population of 5 million residents. It has an African American mayor.

He ran as a Democrat and won overwhelmingly. In 2023, he makes a shocking move which could show a seismic shift in Democratic politics. As I explained in the previous posts, Republicans are trying to court Black men.

Washed Up 45 managed to win over 25% of the Black male vote.

Many Black men are becoming Republicans. And now Eric Johnson, mayor of Dallas, Texas is one of them. He announced he switched parties. He said that he is furious with the immigration and progressive prosecutors.

Gov. Greg Abbott said he is happy to have him in the Texas Republican Party.

“Texas is getting more Red every day,” Abbott posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Johnson is in his second and final term as mayor, which runs through 2027. As a state lawmaker, Johnson made headlines over his successful efforts to remove a plaque in the Texas Capitol that rejected slavery as an underlying cause of the Civil War. His push at the time occasionally put Johnson and Abbott in conflict over discussions to remove the marker.

Dallas.

Texas Democratic Party expressed a lack of surprise in the switch.

“But the voters of Dallas deserved to know where he stood before he ran for reelection as Mayor,” the party said in a statement. “He wasn’t honest with his constituents, and knew he would lose to a Democrat if he flipped before the election.”

During his mayoral run, Johnson has embraced policies denounced by Democrats elsewhere in Texas, including using state troopers to police cities.

The mayor of neighboring Fort Worth, Mattie Parker, is also a Republican, giving Texas two of the nation’s largest cities with GOP leaders. She is the mayor of the 13th largest city in country. Fort Worth has 1.05 million residents.

Austin, Jacksonville, Columbus and Charlotte have 1 million residents already.