In a sign of the red wave that’s set to come in the midterms, last night Republican Mayra Flores flipped a seat in a South Texas Democrat stronghold, representing the first GOP win there in over 150 years.
According to The Post Millennial:
Flores defeated Democratic challenger Dan Sanchez Tuesday in a special election to finish Rep. Filemon Vela’s current term in Texas’s 34th Congressional District, flipping an 84 percent Hispanic seat that Biden won by 13 points in 2020 [and Hillary Clinton won by 33 points in 2016].
Flores, who had 51 percent of the vote to Sanchez’s 43 percent when the race was called, will become the first Mexican-born congresswoman to serve in the House.
This will mark the first time since 1870 that a Republican will represent the district.
The district is the second largest Hispanic majority district in the country, and this race comes amid a Hispanic shift to the right that began under Donald Trump and has greatly accelerated under the disastrous presidency of Joe Biden.
A recent Quinnipiac poll from earlier this month found Hispanic party preference to favor Republicans by 3 percentage points, 41% to 38%. Quinnipiac’s polling is known for being favorable to Democrats however, meaning this is a likely understatement of true support for the GOP. For example, Quinnipiac overestimated the share of the popular vote that Biden would garner in the 2020 vote by 6.5 percentage points.
Dave calls it – Republicans have flipped the second largest Hispanic majority district in the country. #TX34 https://t.co/OCmiPbbl45
— Stephen Sanchez (@SSanchezTV) June 15, 2022
Among those who cast a vote for her was Elon Musk, which was the world’s richest man’s first-ever vote for a Republican candidate.
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