Republican Mayra Flores publicizes 2024 Home bid to retake Texas seat

Former GOP Rep. Mayra Flores introduced she is working for her outdated congressional seat, months after dropping the overall election towards Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX).

Flores introduced her 2024 congressional bid in an look on Fox News on Tuesday morning. She was first elected in a particular election in 2022, earlier than dropping within the basic election, which happened in a redrawn district.

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"I’m saying for Congress. We're taking again our seat — Texas District 34. I’m very excited, and I've a number of religion in god and my household and my superb workforce that we'll flip this district and take again what's ours in 2024. The folks of South Texas, the American folks, need to have a voice in Washington," Flores mentioned on Fox News's Fox and Pals.

Flores outlined border safety, the financial system, and eliminating baby trafficking as chief issues for her congressional marketing campaign.

"We need to empower our border patrol brokers, strengthen our border safety, after all our financial system as properly, and shield the kids like I discussed earlier than which might be being trafficked on this nation proper now," Flores mentioned.

"That is for the folks, and I ask the American folks to help this marketing campaign. This can be a folks’s marketing campaign," she added.

Flores, the primary Mexican-born congresswoman, gained the longtime Democratic Home district on the border with Mexico in June 2022 in an upset. Her basic election loss occurred in a redrawn district, which was extra favorable to Democrats, however she is hoping to flip that redrawn district in 2024.

The Cook dinner Political Report charges Texas's thirty fourth Congressional District as Democrat +9 on its Partisan Voting Index whereas additionally ranking the 2024 race within the district as "probably Democrat."