Texas Democrat makes use of edited photograph of GOP opponent in marketing campaign advert that makes her seem extra aggressive

Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) posted a brand new marketing campaign advert that includes a photograph of his Home GOP opponent Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) that was apparently edited to make the Republican seem extra aggressive.

The advert particularly focuses on college security and gun management, focusing on Flores on her first congressional vote opposing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act simply weeks after a mass taking pictures at a Texas elementary college in Could. The 40-second advert incorporates a photograph initially posted to Flores’s Instagram earlier this 12 months and seems to have edited her eyebrows to provide her a extra aggressive look.

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“After the tragic taking pictures at Uvalde, Mayra Flores' first vote in Congress was AGAINST a bipartisan college security invoice,” Gonzalez stated in a tweet accompanying the video. “We want a consultant that works to guard our kids and households; not somebody who places them at risk. Bear in mind to vote for Vicente Gonzalez.”

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act made a number of modifications to federal firearms legal guidelines by increasing background verify necessities and establishing new felony offenses whereas additionally searching for to fund applications that present entry to psychological well being providers. The invoice was handed by Congress and enacted into regulation in June.

Flores was the one consultant from the Texas-Mexico border to vote towards the invoice.

“I’m prepared to work with anybody on a single problem invoice that can present the right assets to safe our colleges and shield our kids; each mentally and bodily,” she stated in a tweet on the time. “Our youngsters’s psychological well being and security ought to be a high precedence.”

The advert comes lower than 4 weeks earlier than Election Day, when Flores and Gonzalez are set to face off in November to characterize Texas’s thirty fourth Congressional District. Flores is seen as a rising star within the GOP after her particular election win earlier this 12 months to complete Rep. Filemon Vela’s (D-TX) time period representing the thirty fourth District.

By profitable, Flores flipped a vital Home seat within the Republicans' favor and set the stage for a aggressive midterm election that can assist decide which occasion controls Congress over the following two years. Gonzalez, who at the moment represents Texas’s fifteenth Congressional District, has used her victory to attempt to inspire voter turnout, warning that the Republican Occasion was searching for to steal the blue district within the GOP stronghold of Texas.