First appearance on Fox: Leaders of the conservative Hispanic community aiming to flip a Democratic-held Congressional district on the U.S. border with Mexico announced Monday that they have raised huge sums of money to boost the election. .
Former Republican Rep. Mayra Flores, who briefly represented Texas’ 34th Congressional District from 2022 to 2023, received 16,617 unique donations from all 50 states in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to her campaign. We raised over $970,000 from people.
“We are overwhelmed and incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support for our campaign. Voters in the Rio Grande Valley and across the country want to know that our southern border is a disaster and that illegal immigration is out of control. , we know there are Democrats like Joe Biden and Vicente Gonzalez who are “all responsible,” Flores told FOX News Digital.
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Then-Rep. Mayra Flores (R-Texas) speaks during a panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference held at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas on August 5, 2022. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
“We work every day to share the message of securing our borders, lowering costs for families, improving education and health care, and restoring our country’s greatness. And that’s exactly what this “That’s what I’m going to do on the first day of taking back the “seat and put the TX-34 people back in charge,” she added.
Flores was first elected to Congress in June 2022 in a special election to fill the vacant seat, a historic victory in the traditionally Democratic-dominated Hispanic region along the southern border.
However, after Texas redistricting after the 2020 Census, she was forced to face incumbent Democratic Congressman Vicente Gonzalez in the 2022 midterm elections later that year, and she lost.
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Rep. Vicente González (D-Texas) descends the House steps after voting at the Capitol on Thursday, September 15, 2022. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
Flores announced her intention to challenge Gonzalez again last June and has continued to speak out on issues related to the border crisis and South Texas’ Hispanic communities that she says Democrats are leaving behind. There is.
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She is facing a number of other candidates in the Republican primary, including oncologist and former Democrat Dr. Laura Cisneros, former House candidates Mauro Garza and Gregory Kunkle Jr. Also included.
Election analysts generally believe the Democratic Party has an advantage in the race, but no significant opinion polls have been conducted.
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