{"id":1516516,"date":"2022-06-15T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T11:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516516"},"modified":"2022-06-15T07:50:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T11:50:19","slug":"republican-mayra-flores-conservatives-celebrate-historic-congressional-win-in-south-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-mayra-flores-conservatives-celebrate-historic-congressional-win-in-south-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Mayra Flores, Conservatives Celebrate Historic Congressional Win In South Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-mayra-flores-conservatives-celebrate-historic-congressional-win-in-south-texas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516516&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Conservatives celebrated Tuesday night after Republican Mayra Flores flipped a U.S. House seat in deep blue south Texas, in a region that has not been represented by a Republican in well over 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Flores, who beat Democrat Dan Sanchez in the special election for Texas\u2019 34th Congressional District, is now \u201cthe first GOP candidate to represent that area of the Rio Grande Valley since 1870,\u201d the Houston Chronicle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/politics\/texas\/article\/GOP-Mayra-Flores-first-Mexican-born-17240888.php\">reported<\/a>, and she is now \u201cthe first congresswoman born in Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flores responded to her victory with a statement saying that her \u201chistoric win will bring back God to the halls of Congress!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis win is for the people who were ignored for so long!\u201d she continued. \u201cThis is a message that the establishment will no longer be tolerated! We have officially started the red wave!! #TX34 God, Family, Country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongresswoman-Elect Mayra Flores and the people of Texas have a message for Joe Biden!\u201d she added. \u201cThe RED Tsunami is here!\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congresswoman-Elect Mayra Flores and the people of Texas have a message for Joe Biden!<\/p>\n<p>The RED Tsunami is here!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TX34?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TX34<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveAmerica?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaveAmerica<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XnjqASk69Z\">pic.twitter.com\/XnjqASk69Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayra Flores For Congress \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\udd85 (@MayraFlores2022) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayraFlores2022\/status\/1536935947945795584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistoric win! Incredible job @MayraFlores2022,\u201d House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted. \u201cCongrats to you and your team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) tweeted: \u201cMayra\u2019s win is historic and inspiring, as she is the FIRST Mexican-born woman elected to Congress. I look forward to working with Mayra to fight for the America First agenda!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublican @MayraFlores2022 just beat a Democrat to win an open seat for Congress in an historically Democrat district in South Texas,\u201d Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) wrote on Twitter. \u201cCongress just got more Republican. Texas just got more red. The future is looking bright red in Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texas\u2019 34th Congressional District was previously held by Rep. Filemon Vela (D) who stepped down earlier this year to become a lobbyist, as all signs pointed to a brutal upcoming midterm election season for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The region has been devastated by Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s border crisis, something that has turned off many Hispanic voters that typically have voted for Democrats in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans have been eager to flip the seat as part of their new offensive in South Texas after Biden\u2019s underperformance throughout the predominantly Hispanic region in the 2020 election. Flores and her allies spent over $1 million on TV ads in the special election,\u201d the Texas Tribune\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/06\/14\/texas-special-election-tx-34-mayra-flores-dan-sanchez\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe dynamic put Democrats into an unusual underdog position in a region of the state they have long dominated. Vastly outspent by Flores, Sanchez repeatedly compared the special election to a David vs. Goliath fight, with himself playing David.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC columnist Eric Michael Garcia panicked over the results of the election, saying that Democrats needed to be sounding the alarm immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a political earthquake happening in Latino politics in South Texas and there is a reason I have been saying it will be voting like West Virginia,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cBut like @SeanTrende , I expected this in two decades. #TX34. This should be a five alarm fire for Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives celebrated Tuesday night after Republican Mayra Flores flipped a U.S. House seat in deep blue south Texas, in a region that has not been represented by a Republican in well over 100 years. Flores, who beat Democrat Dan Sanchez in the special election for Texas\u2019 34th Congressional District, is now \u201cthe first GOP candidate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1516723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}