Posted on 06/14/2022 6:22:41 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Voters will head to the polls on Tuesday in a special election for Texas’ new 34th congressional district in the Rio Grande Valley, where illegal immigration is front and center.
Longtime Rio Grande Valley Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela Jr., resigned earlier this year, leaving the 34th district seat open.
The special election will decide who represents the district for the remainder of Vela’s term, which ends in January. November’s regular election will determine who serves the district beginning in January for the next two years.
Early voting, which began May 31, ends Friday.
In a race where two Republicans and two Democrats are running, Mayra Flores, the favored Republican candidate, is hoping to win outright, avoid a runoff election and be the incumbent to beat in November.
Ms. Flores, the current GOP nominee for the seat in the November general election, is the Hidalgo County GOP Hispanic Outreach Chair and wife of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Juana “Janie” Cantu-Cabrera, a nurse whom Ms. Flores beat in the March primary, is also running in the special election.
Democrats Dan Sanchez, a Harlingen attorney, and Rene Coronado, a city civil service director from Harlingen, are running for the seat.
Ms. Flores has outraised Mr. Sanchez by 16 to 1.
Republicans have poured money into Ms. Flores’ race, including $1 million recently for television ads that describe what the candidate calls the chaos created by the Biden administration’s open border policies. Mr. Sanchez’s campaign and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent $100,000 on digital ad buys starting this past Saturday, his campaign said…
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Many crazies will vote for Criminal Illegals
The Dem candidate pool is either liberal attorneys or government workers, seldom successful business men.
“Nice to flip this one”
I think it will happen. Even some of the illegals see what this is doing.
Will General Santa Anna be voting this year, or just his wooden leg?
I think the reporter misread the proclamation.
“to serve out the unexpired term”
https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/Proclamation-CD-34-Special-Election.pdf
So whoever is elected is the representative until the fall election.
In another article Mayra Flores already won the R nomination for the fall election. It looks like she’s trying to run as the incumbent. This would flip a traditionally Dem district.
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