Published: Sat, 09/23/23
Mayor Eric Johnson’s decision to change parties was surprising for its timing, but it appeared in line with how he had been governing Dallas, recently favoring tax cuts.
The New York Times
September 22, 2023 at 07:10PM
Mayor Eric Johnson of Dallas announced on Friday that he had switched his party affiliation to become a Republican, saying that leaders in the Democratic Party had focused on “virtue signaling” and had not done enough to help residents of the nation’s cities.
The decision was surprising for its timing: Mr. Johnson was re-elected to a second term last year after running unopposed, and cannot run for a third. But the move appeared in line with how he had increasingly been positioning himself politically: At his second inauguration, Mr. Johnson was joined by Texas’s two Republican U.S. senators, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn.