After a hard-fought campaign, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) bested Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) following the rising GOP star’s upset victory in a special election in June in a historically Democratic stronghold in South Texas.
Flores’s June victory for Texas’s 34th Congressional District had fueled Republican dreams of making inroads with Latino voters. Her general election contest with Gonzalez, a different contender than the one she faced in the special election race, was seen as a test of whether that upset was a fluke.In a Twitter post after the decision was announced, Flores took aim at Republican voters.
The RED WAVE did not happen. Republicans and Independents stayed home. DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE RESULTS IF YOU DID NOT DO YOUR PART!“They feel entitled to our vote, making the same promises over and over and really not making nothing happen,” Flores proclaimed on Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo after her special election victory.
Flores had vied against Democratic challenger Dan Sanchez in the special election race to replace Rep. Filemon Vela , who had held the seat since 2013 and resigned earlier this year. Gonzalez declined to participate in the contest, sending Democrats scrambling and creating an opening for Flores. The Flores-Gonzalez race had been deemed a toss-up by the Cook Political Report. Throughout their matchup, Gonzalez took a page from national Democrats and sought to caricature Flores as a MAGA extremist while billing himself as more of a centrist.
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