{"id":1529046,"date":"2022-06-26T23:50:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529046"},"modified":"2022-06-26T23:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T03:50:28","slug":"mayra-flores-responds-to-video-of-pelosi-elbowing-her-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayra-flores-responds-to-video-of-pelosi-elbowing-her-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayra Flores Responds To Video Of Pelosi Elbowing Her Daughter"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmayra-flores-responds-to-video-of-pelosi-elbowing-her-daughter%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=1529046&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>Newly-elected Congresswoman Mayra Flores (R-TX) responded Sunday to video showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appearing to elbow her daughter to the side during Flores\u2019 swearing-in ceremony last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/nancy-pelosi-appears-to-elbow-mayra-flores-daughter-during-swearing-in-ceremony\/\">Flores<\/a> flipped Texas\u2019 34th Congressional District \u2013 which has long been held by Democrats \u2014 in a special election on June 15th to fill the seat vacated when former Congressman Filemon Vela (D-TX) resigned to take a job with a lobbying and law firm. She was sworn in on Tuesday, June 21, but video of Pelosi elbowing her daughter did not surface on social media until the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Actor James Woods shared the video along with his own comment, tweeting, \u201cI love this princess stood her ground, while Nancy showed her true colors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I love this princess stood her ground, while Nancy showed her true colors. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/17ArfkD3MG\">pic.twitter.com\/17ArfkD3MG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealJamesWoods\/status\/1541233440212733952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flores appeared to agree with Woods\u2019 assessment, replying, \u201cI am so proud of my strong, beautiful daughter for not allowing this to faze her. She continued to smile and pose for the picture like a Queen. No child should be pushed to the side for a photo op. PERIOD!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am so proud of my strong, beautiful daughter for not allowing this to faze her. She continued to smile and pose for the picture like a Queen. <\/p>\n<p>No child should be pushed to the side for a photo op. PERIOD!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TA50EntDoq\">https:\/\/t.co\/TA50EntDoq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayra Flores For Congress \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\udd85 (@MayraFlores2022) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayraFlores2022\/status\/1541252448966287361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The video showed Pelosi waving her hands as she spoke \u2014 and then as she turned to see Flores\u2019 daughter standing close to her, she used her elbow to push the young girl to the side. Flores\u2019 daughter seemed unfazed by the whole situation, continuing to smile and moving back to her original spot as soon as Pelosi dropped her arm back to her side.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/republican-mayra-flores-wins-u-s-house-seat-in-south-texas-first-gop-win-there-in-150-years\/\">Flores<\/a> won her special election, she became the first Mexican-born American woman to serve in Congress \u2014 and because she was only elected to fill the last few months of Vela\u2019s current term, she will have to remain on campaign footing and defend her recently-won seat in November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>But Flores has already made waves \u2014 comedian Bill Maher <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/youre-not-my-lawyer-bill-maher-breaks-down-exactly-why-americans-are-fleeing-the-left\/\">cited her race<\/a> on Friday as proof that Democrats were losing ground with demographics where they had previously done well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe campaign manager for the losing Democrat said, \u2018We gave up a reliably Democratic Congressional seat for no reason at all. We deserve to know why.\u2019 Well, aside from your terrible attitude, I\u2019m going to tell you why,\u201d Maher explained. \u201cBecause these voters stopped seeing your candidate as their lawyer. That\u2019s why. Their message to you was, \u2018I\u2019m an American now. I\u2019m here. Be my lawyer, not the lawyer for the migrants showing up in my backyard.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-elected Congresswoman Mayra Flores (R-TX) responded Sunday to video showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appearing to elbow her daughter to the side during Flores\u2019 swearing-in ceremony last Tuesday. Flores flipped Texas\u2019 34th Congressional District \u2013 which has long been held by Democrats \u2014 in a special election on June 15th to fill the seat vacated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1529061,"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-1529046","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\/1529046","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}