By Matthew Choi
Texas Tribune
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans want Vicente Gonzalez – again.
The Republican conference’s campaign arm announced Monday it is adding the South Texas Democrat to its main target list in the 2024 congressional elections, singling him out as a top priority for next year in a sign that they believe his district is still flippable.
His inclusion on the list means they intend to pour serious outside cash into a yet-unknown Republican challenger, ending the days when Democrats could run in the region without having to put up much of a fight.
“Republicans are in the majority and on offense. We will grow our House majority by building strong campaigns around talented recruits in these districts who can communicate the dangers of Democrats’ extreme agenda,” said National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson in a statement. “These House Democrats should be shaking in their boots.”
Gonzalez ran in the 34th congressional district last year after redistricting moved his home out of the McAllen-based 15th district, which he previously represented. Both the 34th and 15th districts were among the most competitive races in the state, with influxes of outside cash from both parties flowing into the campaigns.
“Republicans are in the majority and on offense. We will grow our House majority by building strong campaigns around talented recruits in these districts who can communicate the dangers of Democrats’ extreme agenda,” said National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson in a statement. “These House Democrats should be shaking in their boots.”
Gonzalez ran in the 34th congressional district last year after redistricting moved his home out of the McAllen-based 15th district, which he previously represented. Both the 34th and 15th districts were among the most competitive races in the state, with influxes of outside cash from both parties flowing into the campaigns.
Gonzalez ran against incumbent Republican Rep. Mayra Flores, who had won the seat the summer before in a special election after Rep. Filemon Vela retired early from Congress to become a lobbyist.
Flores’ victory in the special election came with a massive surge in cash from out of the district, giving Republicans their first-ever seat in the Rio Grande Valley. But national Democrats opted not to match the spending spree and essentially abandoned the district, leaving their candidate Dan Sanchez vastly underfunded.
Flores’ victory in the special election came with a massive surge in cash from out of the district, giving Republicans their first-ever seat in the Rio Grande Valley. But national Democrats opted not to match the spending spree and essentially abandoned the district, leaving their candidate Dan Sanchez vastly underfunded.
Local Democrats were furious that giving the seat away to the Republicans would create a substantially greater challenge for Gonzalez in the general election, but national Democratic operatives contended it would be more advantageous to keep their powder dry to have more to spend in November.
Gonzalez’s victory was not a knockout. In a district that was drawn to be more Democratic and would have voted for President Joe Biden with a margin of over 15 percentage points, Gonzalez won by roughly 8 percentage points.
His campaign in the 34th district ended up being his most expensive and, he admitted at the time, his most challenging. Both campaigns spent over $3 million in the race, and Republicans blasted Gonzalez for a number of verbal gaffes. Gonzalez told Newsweek that he “didn’t come here through chain migration, I didn’t come through asylum or amnesty or whatever” in a bid to distinguish himself from Flores, who was the first Mexican-born woman ever elected to Congress.
Gonzalez’s victory was not a knockout. In a district that was drawn to be more Democratic and would have voted for President Joe Biden with a margin of over 15 percentage points, Gonzalez won by roughly 8 percentage points.
His campaign in the 34th district ended up being his most expensive and, he admitted at the time, his most challenging. Both campaigns spent over $3 million in the race, and Republicans blasted Gonzalez for a number of verbal gaffes. Gonzalez told Newsweek that he “didn’t come here through chain migration, I didn’t come through asylum or amnesty or whatever” in a bid to distinguish himself from Flores, who was the first Mexican-born woman ever elected to Congress.
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15 comments:
And, again, Vicente will kick her round ass.
KOVO: Keep Our Valley Ours
Republicans do not surrender political ground.
RGV DEMOCRATS don't, either!
It'll be wall-to-wall catos y chingasos all thru the fuckin campaign, but Vicente Gonzalez will kick the Burgos shit outta Mayra "La Huerca Sonsa" Flores. If she runs. Republicans are looking for a better candidate to oppose Chente.
And maybe Puny Republican Carlos "El Vagre" Cascos will be the one. Only, he's lost more elections than he's won.
Pos, dicen que es posible que se lanze.
Mexico, recoge tu gente!
His ancestors came here by chain migration...just over a hundred years before Mayra's. He has the accent of people who fuck their brothers and sisters. Reminds me of chicanos like Cesar Chavez. He hates immigrants.
El Chief Chapo Sauceda se la come !!!
March 15, 2023 at 7:44 AM
PENDEJO YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT IDIOTA MUST BE A GRINGO/COCO MAMON Y LAMBISCON
"NADA" MAS.
is she running again? no tiene verguenza hamburgos were 6 to a dollar at one time.
We need Vincent to keep working hard to help out the city of Brownsville and the Tanaska mess hidden from the city taxpayers and not giving back any money from the 140 million dollars ripoff that so many democrats got a piece of the action and than somehow retired. Those democrats know how to live the good life at the expense of the stupid democrats voters.
Mayra mentiras es la malinche. . Social media will expose her. Jesus Christ can’t save you from being a hypocrite and belonging to the fake Christians Republican Party!
she already pawned that fake ar
Otra vez la mosca en la sopa!! MAYRA FLORES Ya nadie quiere saber nada de esa vieja (Judas). Vieja gringa nalgas prietas. A esa vieja no le importa si se dice Republicana o Democrata nomas que le den billete, poder y prestigio. ESO se gana trabajando, tratando bien a la gente y siendo humilde.. No como ella que parece que va a la guerra( con la metralleta) y echando mentiras por todos lados. Esa no es una buena persona( y no creo que la gente de Burgos, sea asi). Si quieres todavia estar en la politica cambia tu manera de comportarte (no quieras ser coma la loca Marjorie Taylor Greene) bien, no digas mentiras y trabaja pa el beneficio de la gente NO DEL RICO Y PODEROSO. Se necesitan candidatos honrados, trabjadores que escuchen al pueblo no que lo CHINGEN. Gracias. Esa es mi opinión
Mayra Flores es la prima de George Santos y entre los dos inventaron la máquina para piscar algodon pa no piscarlo a mano !!! PURAS MENTIRAS estos dos.
OYE JUAN, DO A LONG ESSAY ON ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT "VICENTE CON LA GENTE" HAS DONE FOR US IN CONGRESS!!!
HE HASNT DONE CRAP!
“MAYRA LA MENTIROSA DE BURGOS” y “ VICENTE CON LA FERIA $” son chafas los dos. Puro rata y wanna be rata. El dinero y el poder los vuelven locos. Pura corrupción!!! Necesitamos un candidato (a) honrado que tenga huevos( o ovarios) para que luche por el pueblo( por la gente).
We need someone with education who has integrity and the willingness to help the community. Not to go to D.c. and never come back unless to be re-elected. Neither Mayra la mentirosa or Vicente el bueno para nada sirven. Fuera los dos.We need an honest person not a crook regardless if they are either party.
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