{"id":1969827,"date":"2023-07-11T15:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-gop-rep-mayra-flores-announces-bid-to-retake-congressional-seat\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T15:28:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:28:49","slug":"former-gop-rep-mayra-flores-announces-bid-to-retake-congressional-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-gop-rep-mayra-flores-announces-bid-to-retake-congressional-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayra Flores, former GOP Rep., seeks to reclaim Congressional seat."},"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%2Fformer-gop-rep-mayra-flores-announces-bid-to-retake-congressional-seat%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=1969827&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--><h2>Republican Mayra Flores Announces Campaign to Retake U.S. House Seat<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Former U.S. Representative Mayra Flores, who lost her seat in Texas last year, has declared her intention to run again. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/texas-republican-mayra-flores-announces-campaign-return-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> on \u201cFox &#038; Friends,\u201d Flores revealed her campaign, stating her determination to reclaim what belongs to her. After winning her seat in a special election, she became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republican-mayra-flores-wins-u-s-house-seat-in-south-texas-first-gop-win-there-in-150-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first<\/a> Republican to represent the South Texas district in over 150 years. However, she lost it in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-gop-rep-mayra-flores-announces-bid-to-retake-congressional-seat\/\" title=\"Mayra Flores, former GOP Rep., seeks to reclaim Congressional seat.\">midterm elections held<\/a> in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During her appearance on Fox News, Flores confidently declared, \u201cWe are taking back our seat, Texas District 34. I\u2019m very excited, and I have a lot of faith in God, in my family, in my amazing team, that we will flip this district and take back what is ours in 2024.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flores, the wife of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">border patrol agent<\/a>, emphasized the importance of securing the border and combatting child trafficking in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-newest-political-crush-is-privileged-harvard-grad-who-pointed-gun-at-unarmed-black-man\/\" title=\"Democrats\u2019 Newest Political Crush Is \u2018Privileged\u2019 Harvard Grad Who Pointed Gun at Unarmed Black Man\">campaign announcement<\/a>. She also criticized the Biden administration for \u201closing track of 85,000 children,\u201d referring to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senator-hawley-calls-for-full-scale-fbi-investigation-into-85000-migrant-kids-missing-under-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> that revealed the Department of Health and Human Services had \u201clost touch\u201d with a significant number of migrant children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is for our children, for the future, for their parents, and also for these children that are being brought into the United States as well, to be trafficked,\u201d Flores passionately expressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the first Mexican-born U.S. congresswoman, Flores released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-there-will-be-a-recount\/\" title=\"Georgia Secretary of State: 'There Will Be a Recount'\">campaign ad<\/a> on Twitter, highlighting her family&#8217;s roots in South Texas and the importance of family values. She tweeted, \u201cI\u2019m running to help restore the American Dream, secure our borders, and stand strong on our values of God, Family and Country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am excited to announce that I am officially running for Congress in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TX34?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TX34<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We made history last year, but there\u2019s still work to be done here in South Texas. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m running to help restore the American Dream, secure our borders, and stand strong on our values of God, Family and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OgMKepIB8b\">pic.twitter.com\/OgMKepIB8b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayra Flores (@MayraFlores2022) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayraFlores2022\/status\/1678741957131075585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Challenging Incumbent Vicente Gonzalez<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to The Texas Tribune, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has been actively recruiting Flores to run against Democratic Representative Vicente Gonzalez, who currently holds the seat. In the November election, Gonzalez secured 52.7% of the vote, while Flores received 44.2%. The redistricting that occurred before the election played a significant role in Gonzalez&#8217;s victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the district currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/cook-pvi\/2023-partisan-voting-index\/118-district-map-and-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">favoring<\/a> Democrats by 9 points, an NRCC poll conducted in late May showed Flores tied with Gonzalez in a hypothetical matchup. The polling <a href=\"https:\/\/static.texastribune.org\/media\/files\/3ad59df05983bb0af9438e668efc440a\/TX34_nrcc_pollingmemo.pdf?_ga=2.94960156.1075036174.1689091652-499923932.1689091651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memo<\/a> stated, \u201cMayra Flores has already proven she can win, and new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-vowed-to-elect-more-women-they-did-just-that\/\" title=\"Republicans Vowed To Elect More Women...They Did Just That\">polling shows<\/a> she remains popular.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Mayra Flores, former U.S. Representative from Texas, plans to reclaim her seat after losing it last year. During an interview on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends,&#8221; Flores announced her campaign, expressing determination to &#8220;take back what&#8217;s ours.&#8221; She previously won her seat in a successful bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":1969828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969827","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\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}