Latest sign that realignment is real: Republican Mayra Flores flips U.S. House Seat in South Texas, becoming the first Republican to represent that area of the Rio Grande Valley since 1870.
The district is 84% Hispanic.
And the Democrats are very worried now.
MSNBC’s Eric Michael Garcia says “there is a political earthquake happening in Latino politics in South Texas and there is a reason I have been saying it will be voting like West Virginia…This should be a five alarm fire for Democrats.”
“Republican Mayra Flores is projected to win a special election in Texas' 34th Congressional District, flipping a House seat after Rep. Filemon Vela, who held the seat for nearly 10 years, resigned in March and vacated the seat.
Flores, who had 51% of the vote to Democratic candidate Dan Sanchez' 43% when The Associated Press called the race, will become the first Mexican-born congresswoman to serve in the House. Her family moved to the United States when she was 6 years old.
Flores will finish out the remainder of Vela's term, which expires in January, and Republicans were eager to win the seat and gain new ground in the Lone Star state to represent the district that spans east of San Antonio with parts along the coast to Brownsville. As currently drawn, the 34th Congressional District will essentially be dissolved later this year after a newly redrawn map favoring current 15th Congressional District Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, the Democratic nominee for November's general election to represent the 34th District, was constructed.”
Incredible: