Don Huffines
| Donald Blaine "Don" Huffines | |
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Photo via Gage Skidmore
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| Member of the Texas Senate from the 16th district |
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| Assumed office January 13, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | John J. Carona |
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| Born | 1958 Greenville, Hunt County Texas, USA |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Catherine Huffines |
| Children | Five Children |
| Residence | Dallas, Texas |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
Donald Blaine Huffines, known as Don Huffines (born April 26, 1958), is a Texas businessman and Republican politician. A conservative affiliated with the Tea Party movement, Huffines served as a State Senator for District 16 in the Texas Senate from 2015 to 2019. He was defeated in his 2018 re-election campaign.
Huffines has been associated with American nationalist groups and anti-government organizations. He ran an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Texas in the 2022 Republican primary, challenging incumbent Greg Abbott. Huffines co-owns and operates Huffines Communities, a real estate development company in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
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Background
Huffines is a fifth generation Texan, born in Greenville in Hunt County. He has two older brothers, James and Ray, and an identical twin brother, Phillip. Alongside his twin brother, Huffines operates Huffines Communities, a large real-estate development company in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Don Huffines' grandfather, James Lecil "J.L." Huffines, started the Huffines Motor Company in Denton, Texas, in 1924 which has grown into a large network of metroplex dealerships and is currently run by Ray Huffines.[1][2][3]
2014 Texas State Senate District 16 campaign
The district encompasses a part of Dallas County, Texas. Huffines unseated Senator John J. Carona by a narrow margin in the Republican primary election held on March 4, 2014. A combined $6.3 million was spent by both candidates in the critical primary race.
In the November 4 general election, Huffines's Libertarian challenger, Mike Dooling, dropped out of the race, and Huffines hence ran unopposed.[4] Huffines campaigned on the themes of term limits, school choice, funding highway construction, opposing new toll roads, and cutting taxes.[5]
2022 Texas State gubernatorial election
Huffines ran in the Republican primary on March 1, 2022, against the two-term incumbent Governor Greg Abbott and former Texas Republican state chairman Allen West, also a former U.S. Representative from Florida.[6] He advocates for securing the Texas-Mexico border and completing the wall, banning critical race theory from Texas education, opposition to taxpayer-funded tuition for illegal immigrant students, opposing abortion, eliminating property taxes, and prioritizing election integrity, among others.[7]
Huffines received the endorsement of Don McLaughlin, Jr., the Mayor of Uvalde. He finished in a weak third-place position in the gubernatorial primary. He narrowly trailed Allen West, but the easy primary winner was Governor Abbott, who now faces the far-left extremist Democrat, Beto O'Rourke, in the November 8 general election.
Election history
Most recent election
2014
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Republican | Donald Huffines | 25,141 | 50.63 | ||
| Republican | John Carona (Incumbent) | 24,509 | 49.36 | ||
| Turnout | 49,650 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Republican | Donald Huffines (Unopposed) | 100 | |||
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- 1958 births
- Living people
- American anti-communists
- American anti-illegal immigration activists
- American nationalists
- American pro-life activists
- Defense of traditional marriage
- Opponents of population replacement
- Tea Party movement
- Texas State Senators
- Texas Republicans
- People from Greenville, Texas
- People from Dallas, Texas
- Businesspeople from Texas
- McCombs School of Business alumni
