Mayra Flores Biography – Mayra Flores Wiki
Mayra Flores is a Mexican American politician and health practitioner from the state of Texas. A member of the Republican Party, she is the Representative-elect for Texas’s 34th congressional district. She won the seat following her victory in a special election, held on June 14, 2022, following Congressman Filemon Vela Jr.’s resignation in March 2022. She will be the first Mexican-born congresswoman in U.S. history.
She became a respiratory care practitioner in 2014. She currently works caring for the elderly and disabled with chronic respiratory illnesses and has been on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before her congressional campaigns, Flores worked in the Hidalgo County Republican Party as chair of Hispanic Outreach. She was raised with conservative values and, although her parents supported the Democratic Party, she was drawn to the Republicans due to her anti-abortion views. Before getting elected to Congress, she had promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Flores declared her candidacy for the United States House of Representatives in Texas’s 34th congressional district after the March 2021 announcement of incumbent Democratic representative Filemon Vela Jr. that he would not seek re-election to the seat in 2022. She ran her campaign appealing to Hispanic and Latino Americans and their disillusionment towards the Democratic Party, which they have historically supported in the South Texas region. Following the establishment of new congressional districts as a part of the 2020 redistricting cycle, incumbent Democrat Vicente Gonzalez of the 15th district announced his candidacy for the new 34th district. On March 1, 2022, both Flores and Gonzalez won their respective partisan primaries and will face each other in the general election on November 8, 2022.
In March 2022, Vela announced his early resignation from Congress. Shortly after Vela’s announcement, Flores declared her intent to run for the special election, which was held on June 14, 2022, to fill the vacancy. Gonzalez did not run in the special election. Flores defeated Democrat Dan Sanchez of Harlingen to win the election, she earned 50.98% of the vote against Sanchez who earned 43.33% of the vote, avoiding a runoff.
During the special election, she reported $752,000 in contributions, while Sanchez reported $46,000. Flores flipped a Democratic House seat to a Republican one. She graduated high school in San Benito and worked in cotton fields with her parents in Memphis. She graduated from South Texas College in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership.
Mayra Flores Age
She was born on January 1, 1986, in Burgos, Mexico.
Mayra Flores Husband
She is married to a U.S. Border Patrol agent, John Vallejo. They have two children. Flores is a Christian. She was raised with conservative values and, although her parents supported the Democratic Party, she was drawn to the Republicans due to her anti-abortion views.
Mayra Flores Children
She is married and is the mother of her two children.
Mayra Flores Family
She was born in Burgos, Tamaulipas to migrant farmworkers. She moved to the United States when she was six years old. Her family often moved throughout Texas during her childhood.
Mayra Flores Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @mayrafloresforcongress.
