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The spectacle g.o.p.s12/19/2023 They had voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and considered themselves moderates. They were warm and inviting, and I sat on their couch for an hour listening to their political trajectory. I met a retired couple who, unlike many of her most ardent supporters, were devoted Catholics, not evangelicals. But, almost by definition, she received support from people who voted Democrat in the past. Have voters in her district similarly shifted?įlores won a low-turnout election, so we’re talking about a smallish slice of voters. I actually said, “I’m not trying to be cute, I’m really trying to understand.” She said, “That’s my statement.”įlores told you she voted for Barack Obama in 2008, but grew disillusioned with Democrats and enthusiastically backed Trump. I gave her multiple opportunities to clarify. I think she’d been asked that question before, knew what she wanted to say and stuck to the script. I don’t think it was a surprise to her that I asked. 6 attack was a “setup.” You repeatedly asked her whether President Biden won the 2020 election, and she kept responding that he was “the worst president.” Was that awkward? She’s the first Mexican-born woman in Congress, and the Republican Party completely embraced her.įlores has voiced conspiratorial views, suggesting that the Jan. The placard on the lectern said “Historic.” Republicans have been criticized for being anti-immigrant, obviously, and here’s a woman who not only is an immigrant but who worked in the fields alongside her parents as a farmworker.įlores has described herself as Democrats’ worst nightmare, but she was also Republicans’ wildest dream. After her swearing-in, she did a press conference with Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans. She seems to symbolize Republican hopes that Latinos will increasingly support the party. A lot of them, including Flores, were married to Border Patrol agents and used that as the source of their energy and support for Trump.įlores won her special election last month pretty easily, despite being a first-time candidate running in a historically Democratic district. They’d organized “Trump Trains” and done Hispanic outreach for the Republican Party. I came across a whole group of women who drove a lot of the change. Jennifer: I met her almost a year and a half ago when I went to the Rio Grande Valley, in South Texas, to try to understand why Latino voters there swung toward Donald Trump in 2020. To put Flores’s election in context of the larger shift, today’s newsletter talks with Jennifer Medina, a Times reporter who writes about national politics and profiled Flores this week. One sign of the shift is in Texas’ majority-Latino 34th Congressional District, which recently elected Mayra Flores, a conservative Republican, to serve out the remaining term of a Democrat who resigned in March. Most still vote for Democrats, but the margin has shrunk. Latino voters have recently shifted toward the Republican Party.
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