Tom Green County Goes for Trump, Jones

 

Here are the results from the Tom Green County Elections office for the Nov. 8, 2016 Presidential Election. We are only reporting contested races. Download the official results here.

At the county elections office tonight a 9 p.m., long faces were seen as elections officers worked to produce the first elections returns from Tom Green County for the evening of what is looking like a historic presidential election.

Fox News had already called the State of Texas for Donald Trump, while our county continued to collate the latest returns. Just before 10 p.m., they published the first batch of returns showing a 49.86 percent voter turnout. By 10:10 p.m., a second batch of returns were posted, raising the turnout to 59.92 percent.That high number became the total turnout, barely exceeding the turnout of the 2012 Presidential Election of 59.53 percent.

Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump will carry Tom Green County with 71.49 percent of the vote.

Tom Green County Democratic Chairman David Currie and his Republican counterpart Jeff Betty both agreed the process was moving along smoothly. Currie lamented that the county is not yet turned “blue” for Democrats. “My mother is 94 years old now and I suspect I have 30 more years and maybe we’ll see it in my lifetime,” Currie said, confident of his genes.

Betty, who early on was critical of Trump, was introspective. He said after the Republican convention, he saw more than just white people wanting to get involved in Republican politics, a phenomenon he credits Trump’s message. “I've had more African Americans and Latinos come to our office than in any election cycle I’ve been involved with the local party,” Betty said.

The two issues most important to Tom Green County’s Latino Republicans were that they were anti-abortion and against illegal immigration.

Sheriff David Jones has defeated his Democrat challenger for the second election in a row. Jones said over the phone that he was thankful to the citizens of Tom Green County for entrusting him with another four years. A full story on Jones is forthcoming.

Here are the election returns for Tom Green County as of 11:30 p.m.

Candidate Early VoteElection DayTotalPercentage
Sheriff
David Jones (R) 18,778  9,348  28,12674.81%
Walter L. Bryant (D)  5,876  3,597   9,47325.19%
U.S. President
Donald J. Trump (R) 18,3269,050 27,37671.49%
Hillary Clinton (D) 5,8973,220 9,11723.81%
Gary Johnson/William Weld (LIB) 771624 1,3953.64%
Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka (GRN) 111105 2160.56%
Write-In 131591900.55%

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The whole world watches as the USA , long seen as the bastion of freedom and democracy , topples to the new nationalism . Hate racism and extremism are the new order . The Russians cheer as the new axis of darkness reemerges from the ashes of Fascism and the Third Reich. Hard to believe , but the New World Order has arrived . Now we must wait for the religious right to sink their evil Satanic claws into the peoples hearts . Many of the freedoms that we enjoy will tumble , gone are the days of a balanced and fair Supreme Court . This great nation has faced many challenges , sometimes closer to disaster than most knew , perhaps we will prevail . It will be a long hard struggle , or maybe we are at the end of the road . No one dreamed that Rome would fall , as did many other great nations .History repeats itself . It was only a matter of time , no one believed it would come so soon . The greatest free and true democracy , that the world has ever known , has succumbed to , blind fear , hate racism and most of all , GREED .
Heil Trump ! Long lIve the furor ! Well milo and otis has posted his last rant , freedom of speech will be one of the first to fall . In fact it will be down right dangerous . Farewell great nation !

Maybe now we can get away from the name calling and return to some civility in the political arena to debate issues rather than berating anyone that disagrees with you.
BTW, "furor" is spelled fuhrer and is German meaning leader or guide.

winky, Sat, 01/14/2017 - 05:17

not taking sides at all here, just laughed out loud when you corrected his spelling of 'furher', then misspelled 'leader'. good stuff..

winky, Sat, 01/14/2017 - 05:20

my bad mutt! looked like leader was leador on my little screen.. cracked me up

You might get a ride with Whoopi Goldberg , Jon Stewart, Al Sharpton, Miley Cyrus or the dozens of other progressive types who have promised to leave. My hope - that they keep their word and carry a fellow elitist under each arm!

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