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Former GOP Rep. Mayra Flores introduced on Wednesday that she is changing back to her initial area to test Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, in 2026.
Flores’ choice to run in the 34th Congressional Area comes months after she introduced a project in the 28th Area versus Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, and simply days after the Texas Legislature accepted a brand-new legislative map that offers Republicans much better chances to catch Gonzalez’s South Texas area.
” Texas’ 34th Area has actually turned into one of the leading GOP pick-up chances in the nation,” Flores created on social media sites. “This race is not over, and our goal is much from full. I have incomplete service.”
Another Republican, Military expert Eric Flores– no connection to Mayra– introduced his candidateship versus Gonzalez in July.
Mayra Flores stood for the 34th Area in 2022 for around 6 months after winning the seat in an unique political election.
She shed her reelection to Gonzalez, that changed areas himself when his previous seat was attracted to prefer Republicans, in November 2022. Gonzalez took place to directly beat Flores momentarily time in 2024 by much less than 3 portion factors, also as the swing seat was brought by Republican politician Donald Trump.
Flores is the very first Mexican-born female to offer in Congress. She came in to the USA, where she is currently a person, when she was 6 years of ages, according to her project site.
Flores, that was supported by Trump in 2024, desires moms and dads to have control over their youngsters’s education and learning, according to the site. She’s likewise concentrated on protecting the boundary and enhancing Texas’ economic climate.
Gonzalez recognized to The Texas Tribune in July that transforms to area maps can impede his reelection possibilities.
” The only method Republican politicians can defeat me is by unfaithful and transforming the area maps,” he claimed in the July declaration.
While Trump won the 34th Area by 4.5 portion factors in 2014, the freshly accepted lines transform it right into one he would certainly have brought by a much more definitive 10 factors.
The seat is secured in the Rio Grande Valley’s Cameron Area, covering the boundary cities of Brownsville and Harlingen. It was redrawn to consist of components of traditional Nueces Area and its most significant city, Corpus Christi, while going down components of McAllen and Hidalgo Area.
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