'Started the Red Wave': Mayra Flores Flips Texas Border District in Special Election

Spencer Brown / Townhall Tipsheet

Republican Mayra Flores beat Democrat  Dan Sanchez on Tuesday in the special election for Texas' D+5 34th Congressional District, part of which falls along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Flores, who is also the first Mexican-American to be elected to Congress, won in the 84 percent Hispanic district — which Biden won by four points in 2020 — that covers an area of Rio Grande Valley not represented by a Republican since 1870, according to The Houston Chronicle. 

The special election for the 34th District was held to fill the vacancy created when Democrat Rep. Filemon Vela resigned his seat in order to become a lobbyist earlier this year, one of many Democrats who read the writing on the wall and saw the red wave coming in the midterms. 

Flores' campaign account celebrated her win late Tuesday night saying it "is for the people who were ignored so long" and "a message that the establishment will no longer be tolerated!" she added. "We have officially started the red wave!!" Read more and see tweets here.