Gina Hinojosa Wins Tejano Democrats Straw Poll

Largest organization of Hispanic Democrats in Texas votes overwhelmingly for Gina Hinojosa at 2025 statewide convention

San Antonio, TX — This weekend, Texas’s State Tejano Democrats, the largest organization of Hispanic Democrats in Texas, voted overwhelmingly in favor of Rep. Gina Hinojosa for Texas Governor in a straw poll conducted at the organization’s statewide convention in San Antonio. Rep. Hinojosa addressed a group of more than 100 Tejano Democrats during the convention on Friday.

Rep. Gina Hinojosa (center) with members of the State Tejano Democrats, shortly after addressing the group.

Since launching her campaign on Oct. 15, Rep. Hinojosa has received an outpouring of support, including wall-to-wall news coverage across Texas’s major markets, more than 100 endorsements from elected officials and community leaders, and events hearing from thousands of Texans across the state, in locations including Brownsville, McAllen, San Antonio, Prairie View, and Austin.

Shortly after she announced, Bay City Council Member and farmer Benjamin Flores dropped out of the race for Governor and endorsed Rep. Hinojosa. 

“I believe Gina Hinojosa is the right person to inspire voters across the state and lead Texas forward as its next Governor,” said Flores.

Assuming she wins the Democratic nomination, Gina Hinojosa will be the first Tejano candidate at the top of the ticket in Texas in more than 20 years. A Brownsville native, she would be the first Governor of Texas from the Rio Grande Valley. 

For more information, visit www.ginafortexas.com.

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Gina Hinojosa is a native Texan, born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley. She never planned on running for office, but when her son’s school was threatened for closure by state budget cuts she rallied parents, won a seat on the school board, and kept the school open. But neighborhood schools kept closing across the state because Republican leaders kept diverting money from them, so she ran for the Texas House of Representatives and helped win more than $11 billion in school funding, reduced standardized testing, and gave raises to teachers. 

Growing up in the Valley, Gina learned an important early lesson from her grandmother: ”No te dejes.” Fight back. And now she is taking the fight directly to Greg Abbott, who for over a decade has helped the corrupt elite get rich while working Texans struggle to get by.