{"id":1520618,"date":"2022-06-17T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T16:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520618"},"modified":"2022-06-17T12:06:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T16:06:39","slug":"rep-elect-flores-obliterates-kamala-harris-with-just-three-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-elect-flores-obliterates-kamala-harris-with-just-three-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep.-Elect Flores Obliterates Kamala Harris With Just Three Words"},"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\">18<\/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%2Frep-elect-flores-obliterates-kamala-harris-with-just-three-words%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=1520618&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--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Republican Texas Rep.-elect Mayra Flores needed only three words when responding to Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s claim about \u201cprogress\u201d being made at the southern border Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s honestly useless,\u201d Flores said. \u201cI don\u2019t know why she\u2019s in that position. She hasn\u2019t been here in south Texas to see what their policies are creating, the mess that they\u2019re creating in our country, and that their policies are hurting real people.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/15\/elon-musk-mayra-flores-musks-first-republican\/\">(RELATED: Elon Musk Reveals The First Republican He Ever Voted For)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flores <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/14\/mayra-flores-wins-texas-district-democrats-carried-2020\/\">defeated<\/a> Democratic candidate Dan Sanchez in a special election Tuesday to fill a vacancy until January 2023, flipping a seat in a district that is 85% Hispanic.\u00a0She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/06\/14\/us\/elections\/results-texas-us-house-district-34-special-election.html\">avoided<\/a> a runoff by picking up 51% of the vote and will face Democratic Rep. Vincente Gonzalez in a redrawn district in November.<\/p>\n<p>The seat was formerly held by Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela, who resigned to become a lobbyist. Vela <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Texas&#039;_34th_Congressional_District_election,_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">won<\/a> his last election by 13 points in 2020, but Republicans have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycallernewsfoundation.org\/2022\/06\/13\/mass-exodus-nevada-dems-are-fleeing-their-party-for-the-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">picked up<\/a> support in the Rio Grande Valley and in Nevada, two formerly blue strongholds.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/07\/days-joe-biden-kamala-harris-border-crisis-visit\/\">appointed<\/a> Harris as \u201cborder czar\u201d in March 2021. Authorities encountered 239,416 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in May after <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/17\/department-of-homeland-security-title42-migrants-border-mayorkas-biden\/\">encountering<\/a> over 234,000 migrants in April, United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/national-media-release\/cbp-releases-may-2022-monthly-operational-update\">reported<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The last event Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/24\/kamala-harris-disappear-border-crisis\/\">held<\/a> regarding immigration and border issues was a January meeting with Honduran president Xiomara Castro. During that meeting, Harris and Castro discussed \u201croot causes\u201d behind migration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/01\/27\/readout-of-vice-president-harriss-meeting-with-president-castro-of-honduras\/\">according<\/a> to a White House briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Flores and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Texas Rep.-elect Mayra Flores needed only three words when responding to Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s claim about \u201cprogress\u201d being made at the southern border Thursday.\u201cShe\u2019s honestly useless,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1520618","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\/1520618","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}