Texas
Why North Texas Republicans say they back different presidential candidates
NORTH TEXAS – After months of campaigning in the Hawkeye State, Republican voters in Iowa are set to hold caucuses and decide who will win the first-in-the-nation contest for President.
Heading into the caucuses, the Real Clear Politics average of polls between January 5th and 14th shows former President Donald Trump in first place by a wide margin at 52.5%, continuing a months-long trend.
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who served as Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has risen to second place with 18.8%, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has dropped to third place with 15.7%.
Tech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy remains in fourth at 6.8%.
We spoke with four North Texas Republicans who each support a different candidate and asked them why they believe their candidates are best positioned to beat President Joe Biden in November.
Orlando Salazar, who supports Trump said, “He was terrific the first time around. He fulfilled a lot of the promises that he said he was going to do. He moved Israel’s, our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, which many, many presidents had promised to do, and he actually did it. He shut down the border. Our economy was terrific. He rebuilt our military.”
Sanjay Narayan, who backs Ramaswamy said, “I think President Trump has a fantastic record to run on, which is one of the ironies of this because I think Vivek is one of the best defenders of President Trump’s legacy and has the ability to not only defend that but also move America first to the next iteration which is how do we bring the country together by addressing what is really at the core crux of the issue, a loss of national identity.”
Tina Aviles, who supports Haley said, “Poll after poll is showing that Nikki Haley is surging because she is a voice of reason in this fray, and that is what Americans are looking for, and the way that we’re seeing this. We’re looking at some critical swing states that are going to decide the vote. And in poll after poll is showing that Nikki Haley will be able to be the one who could beat Joe Biden in those critical swing states.”
Jonathan Boos, who believes DeSantis should become the nominee said, “Ron DeSantis is best positioned to do that for a couple of reasons. First, I think he’s one of the few candidates that can unite both the Donald Trump wing of the party and then maybe Nikki Haley, Chris Christie wing of the party. Ron DeSantis won his reelection overwhelmingly in the State of Florida. So, between those two things and just his record that he’s able to run on and being able to just relate to kind of an average person, I think he’s going to be the strongest candidate in November against Joe Biden.”
There are no caucuses for Iowa Democrats this year because President Biden wanted South Carolina, a more diverse state, to be his party’s first Presidential contest.
Iowa Democrats can vote for their preferences by mail and results will be announced on Super Tuesday, March 5, the same day Texas holds its primary.
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Multi-agency operation targeted immigrants in Austin and San Antonio
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Agents from multiple federal agencies carried out immigration enforcement operations in Austin and San Antonio on Sunday, federal officials said.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with the Drug Enforcement Agency, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives collaborated on “enhanced targeted operations” in both cities, an ICE spokesperson said. A similar operation took place Sunday morning in the Rio Grande Valley, a local station reported.
The spokesperson said the operations were to “enforce U.S. immigration law and preserve public safety and national security by keeping potentially dangerous criminal aliens out of our communities.” The official did not say what kind of offenses the targeted individuals were suspected of committing or whether anyone was detained.
KXAN first reported ICE was conducting an operation in the Austin area on Sunday afternoon through a spokesperson for the DEA’s Houston division. DEA spokesperson Sally Sparks said the agency’s Houston office “mobilized every agent in our division,” whose jurisdiction spans from Brownsville to Corpus Christi, Del Rio and Waco.
“We got information that we had to mobilize, so we mobilized,” Sparks told The Texas Tribune. “The majority of our agents assisted.”
A Houston DEA post on X on Sunday showed photos of law enforcement officers in a residential area escorting a man in handcuffs.
Neither ICE nor the DEA answered questions about the scale of the operations. Spokespeople for the Travis and Bexar counties’ sheriff’s offices said they had not been notified of the operations. A spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, said Doggett did not receive advance notice that ICE would conduct an operation in Austin.
Sunday’s operations came less than one week after President Donald Trump began his second term as president and promised mass deportations across the country. Trump issued more than a dozen immigration-related executive orders last week, including halting the use of an app that lets migrants make appointments to request asylum and authorizing immigration officers to raid sensitive locations such as churches, schools and hospitals.
The Trump administration has also directed federal officials to investigate and potentially prosecute local officials who interfere with deportation efforts. Some local Texas officials said they are ready to assist Trump, though they have offered scant details on how they would cooperate. A group of Texas lawmakers asked state education officials last week for clear guidance on how school districts should prepare for federal immigration enforcement.
Federal officials also conducted raids in Chicago on Sunday, and ICE officials have been directed to increase the number of people they arrest from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, The Washington Post reported Sunday. ICE made 956 arrests Sunday and sent 554 requests to take custody of individuals currently being held in jails, prisons or other confinement facilities, the agency said in a Sunday evening post on X.
Trump’s actions over the past week have left some migrants stranded on the U.S.-Mexico border, and the threat of deportation has left others in fear. Texas is home to approximately 1.6 million undocumented people, according to a Pew Research Center Report.
Texas
First soaking storm of 2025 brings heavy rain, flooding concerns to North Texas
Following a nice and above-average start to the weekend, a cold front swept through North Texas overnight, bringing light rain to kick off Sunday.
Shower coverage will be fairly isolated in the Dallas Fort-Worth area and will only stick around for about the first half of the day. However, scattered showers may persist in eastern and southeastern counties.
As far as temperatures go, North Texas will feel about a 10-degree drop from Saturday, with highs falling back below average to the lower 50s this afternoon.
Looking ahead to the start of the new workweek, expect partly cloudy skies on Monday, with highs in the mid-50s.
By Tuesday, clouds build back in, but a southerly flow sends temperatures back to the upper 50s, approaching 60 degrees.
Tuesday afternoon and evening will mark the beginning of a significant weather shift.
Scattered showers roll in Tuesday evening as an area of low-pressure heads through the southwestern U.S.
This low-pressure system will continue its eastward track, bringing heavy, soaking rains on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
For this reason, CBS News Texas meteorologists have issued First Alert Weather Days for all three days, warning of soaking rains, a few thunderstorms and the potential for some flooding, especially from Thursday into Friday.
Temperature-wise, North Texas will remain near- and above-normal throughout the extended forecast.
Texas
First significant rain of the year expected in North Texas
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