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Texas GOP Set to Flip Historically Democrat Seat 3 Weeks After Uvalde
Newsweek ^ | 14 June 2022 | Ewan Palme

Posted on 06/14/2022 8:47:13 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi

The Republican Party is hoping to flip a relatively safe South Texas seat from the Democrats on Tuesday in a state where the political divide over gun control in the United States has been highlighted in the wake of the Uvalde mass school shooting.

Texas' 34th Congressional District is currently vacant due to the resignation of Democratic Congressman Filemon Vela, with Tuesday's special election being held to determine who will take over the seat for the remainder of the term.

Currently, the leading candidate is Mayra Flores, who is massively outspending her nearest rivals and has the endorsement of Texas Governor Gregg Abbott.

An RH Elections/Poll Project USA poll released on the eve of the vote found that Flores is the favorite to win Tuesday's election, leading her nearest Democrat challenger, former Cameron County Commissioner Dan Sanchez, by 43 percent to 34 percent, with 13 percent still undecided.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: elections; gop; texas; uvalde
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Mayra Flores did not call for gun control after Uvalde and will steal this seat from the communists.

We are on the right side of these issues folks!

1 posted on 06/14/2022 8:47:13 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: Erik Latranyi

More evidence of growing Republican voting among Hispanics


2 posted on 06/14/2022 8:50:32 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

This story is so-o-o-o-o contrary to The Narrative. /snicker


3 posted on 06/14/2022 8:50:57 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Erik Latranyi

I hope she’s successful.


4 posted on 06/14/2022 8:51:20 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: Erik Latranyi

If only Uncle Mitch would buy a clue. Oh wait. He is already bought.


5 posted on 06/14/2022 8:52:03 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Erik Latranyi

She’s attractive too. I am so sexist


6 posted on 06/14/2022 8:53:45 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

7 posted on 06/14/2022 8:55:30 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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It should,be very easy to flip,the seat. Al. The right has to do is ask

“do you folks want your kids to remain unprotected and totslly vulnersble to madmen aith guns at schools because the left refuse to harden the schools and hire armed guards? Then vote Democrat. If you are sick and tjred of these shootings, and you want your kids to be safe with policies that actuslly address the problem instead of targeting law abiding gun owners because the left want to throw the second amendment out the window, then there is no other choice, vote republican. Liberal policies are killing our kids, right frommthe womb, all the way up to highschool. Stop the carnage voting republican”


8 posted on 06/14/2022 8:55:37 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Good.


9 posted on 06/14/2022 8:55:52 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: BigEdLB
She’s attractive too.

You make a comment like that then you must follow DA RULZ!


10 posted on 06/14/2022 8:56:19 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Erik Latranyi

What does Uvalde have to do with it?


11 posted on 06/14/2022 8:56:35 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: BigEdLB

“ She’s attractive too. I am so sexist”

Pretty much all conservative women are.


12 posted on 06/14/2022 8:56:38 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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The thing that sucks is the only reason democrats are losing big time is because they’re so radical. People aren’t voting on the constitutional principals we stand for, they’re just voting against radicals. Will there be a point when the “masses” understand this?


13 posted on 06/14/2022 9:02:43 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Salman

Do they teach nothing in journalism schools? The election “Tuesday”, which Tuesday? Today? Next week? Two weeks?


14 posted on 06/14/2022 9:02:49 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Erik Latranyi

Was on Steve Bannon War Room Pandemic yesterday.


15 posted on 06/14/2022 9:03:34 AM PDT by SpokeshaveReturns (Spokeshave Returns)
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To: Erik Latranyi

We can only hope and pray.


16 posted on 06/14/2022 9:05:57 AM PDT by stevio
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To: Yo-Yo

she has my vote


17 posted on 06/14/2022 9:06:39 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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Do they teach nothing in journalism schools? The election “Tuesday”, which Tuesday? Today? Next week? Two weeks?”

Actually it’s today AND possibly in 2 weeks (or some other date). Unless Flores gets to 50% today she hasn’t won yet and the seat is not “flipping” today; there will be a runoff between her and Sanchez later and Flores should be favored to win but Democrats still count the votes in those counties so keep a wary eye on that.


18 posted on 06/14/2022 9:07:08 AM PDT by PermaRag (We have SO many targets, and -- for now -- the means to see they get what they deserve.)
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To: SpokeshaveReturns

You were?


19 posted on 06/14/2022 9:08:04 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

“. . . in a state where the political divide over gun control in the United States has been highlighted in the wake of the Uvalde mass school shooting.”

Really? Texas is now a divided state when it comes to the 2nd Amendment? I must have been in a different state last week.


20 posted on 06/14/2022 9:10:06 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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