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Republican Myra Flores is expected to win a special election in the 34th Congressional District of Texas, a change of seat in the House after Republican Philemon Vela, who held office for nearly 10 years, resigned in March and vacated the seat.
Flores, who had 51% of the vote against 43% of Democratic nominee Dan Sanchez when the Associated Press announced the race, will be the first Mexican-born congresswoman to serve in the House. Her family moved to the United States when she was six years old.
Flores will complete the remainder of Vela’s term, which expires in January, and Republicans have been eager to win the seat and gain a new position in Lone Star to represent the area east of San Antonio with parts along the coast to Brownsville. . As planned at the moment, the 34th Congressional District will essentially be disbanded later this year after a recently redrawn map was drawn up in favor of the current 15th Congressional District, Vicente Gonzalez, nominated by Democrats for the November general election. to represent the 34th District.
“First and foremost, thank God for blessing the opportunity to serve the people of the 34th Texas Convention District,” Flores told Fox News Digital in a statement. “I am also grateful to my family for their unwavering love and support during this campaign, as well as to South Texas voters for entrusting me with representing them in Washington. “I look forward to upholding our conservative values of faith, family and freedom and gaining the opportunity to serve our community in the coming months,” she said.
Republican Myra Flores and Democrat Dan Sanchez faced off in a special election race Tuesday to represent the 34th Texas Congressional District for the remainder of Democrat Philemon Vela’s term, which expires in January. (Bill Clark, CQ-Roll Call, Inc. / Dan Sanchez Campaign)
Prior to the election, the two leaders in the Capitol Hill short-term race were Sanchez, a former Cameron County commissioner and Democrat, and health worker Flores, a Republican who overtook Sanchez and won money in the race for more than two months.
Sanchez, a pro-life Democrat running in the election, was heavily spent by Flores and did not receive much support at the national level. Earlier this month, it was revealed that the Congressional Democratic Campaign Committee (DCCC), despite its overwhelming support for abortion, had set aside thousands of dollars in an advertising partnership with Sanchez.
Dan Sanchez is the Democratic nominee in the special election for the 34th Texas Congressional District (Dan Sanchez campaign)
During May 31 forum presented on Facebook with Futuro RGV Sanchez said he was a Catholic and made it clear that he was pro-life “everywhere”. Despite the approvals of Vela and Gonzalez, Flores, who received approval from the Right to Life, sought support from several of the more moderate voters in the highly Spanish-speaking district.
In addition to the special election race, Flores, who graduated from the College of South Texas in 2019 and led the GOP quadruple primary race in March, won approval from Gov. Greg Abbott and will face Gonzalez in the November general election redrawn 34th Congressional District.
Myra Flores (Myra Flores campaign)
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Juana Cantu-Cabrera, another Republican candidate in Tuesday’s special election race, was defeated by Flores in the Republican primary in March after garnering just 7 percent of the vote.
Vela resigned in March to take a position at Akin Gump, a well-known law and lobbying firm, and early voting in the special election began on May 31st.
Kyle Morris covers Fox News policy. On Twitter: @RealKyleMorris.
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