Former GOP Rep. Mayra Flores announced she is running for her old congressional seat, months after losing the general election for the seat against Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX).
Flores announced her 2024 congressional bid in an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday morning. She was first elected in a special election in 2022, before losing in the general election which took place in a redrawn district.
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“I’m announcing for Congress. We are taking back our seat — Texas District 34. I’m very excited and I have a lot of faith in god and my family and my amazing team that we will flip this district and take back what is ours in 2024. The people of south Texas, the American people, deserve to have a voice in Washington,” Flores said on Fox News’s Fox and Friends.
Flores outlined border security, the economy, and eliminating child trafficking as chief concerns for her congressional campaign.
“We want to empower our border patrol agents, strengthen our border security. Of course, our economy as well. And protect the children like I mentioned before that are being trafficked in this country right now,” Flores said.
“This is for the people and I ask the American people to support this campaign. This is a people’s campaign,” she added.
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Flores, the first Mexican-born congresswoman, won the longtime Democratic House district on the border with Mexico in June 2022, in an upset. Her general election loss occurred in a redrawn district, which was more favorable to Democrats, but she is hoping to flip that redrawn district in 2024.
The Cook Political Report rates Texas’s 34th congressional district as Democrat +9 on its Partisan Voting Index, while also rating the 2024 race in the district as “likely Democrat.”
