{"id":1547576,"date":"2022-07-10T17:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T21:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1547576"},"modified":"2022-07-10T17:49:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T21:49:31","slug":"south-texas-congressional-race-shapes-up-as-ideological-battleground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-texas-congressional-race-shapes-up-as-ideological-battleground\/","title":{"rendered":"South Texas Congressional Race Shapes Up as Ideological Battleground"},"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%2Fsouth-texas-congressional-race-shapes-up-as-ideological-battleground%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=1547576&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>Monica De La Cruz, the Republican\u00a0candidate in the redrawn U.S. 15th Congressional District in South <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a>, believes the stark difference between her traditional values and those of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-progressive\">progressive<\/a> Democratic opponent will be what flips the district to red come November.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz faces Democrat Michelle Vallejo in a district that\u2019s heavily Hispanic and traditionally votes blue. Both candidates run small businesses in the district, part of which sits along the Mexican border.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where the similarities between the two end.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz, from Edinburg, was raised by a single mother and put herself through the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is a pro-life candidate who believes America is a country built on faith and family. She wants a return to former President Donald Trump\u2019s border policies to stop illegal immigration and reverse the Democratic policies she attributes to soaring inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Vallejo, who is from Mission, attended Columbia University and says she wants to make South Texas more \u201cequitable.\u201d Her biography says she comes from a family of farm workers and that she wants to represent the working class. She believes in keeping abortion legal, offering \u201crights and opportunities\u201d to illegal immigrants, eliminating fossil fuels in favor of \u201cgreen energy,\u201d and championing LGBTQ+ rights. Her platform seeks to expand social programs such as \u201cMedicare for All.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy opponent Michelle Vallejo, highlighting her radical progressive agenda, will further show the divide between the Democrats and the Republicans,\u201d De La Cruz told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/05\/headshot_medium-1200x1329.jpg\"><\/a> Republican Monica De La Cruz believes her progressive opponent\u2019s radical views will not sit well with traditional Hispanic voters. (Photo courtesy of Monica De La Cruz) <\/p>\n<p>Vallejo, endorsed by progressives such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), became her party\u2019s District 15 nominee after defeating moderate Democrat Ruben Ramirez by 35 votes in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monica De La Cruz, the Republican\u00a0candidate in the redrawn U.S. 15th Congressional District in South Texas, believes the stark difference between her traditional values and those of her progressive Democratic opponent will be what flips the district to red come November. De La Cruz faces Democrat Michelle Vallejo in a district that\u2019s heavily Hispanic and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":904,"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-1547576","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\/1547576","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\/904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547576\/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=1547576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}