Gabe Kaminsky is an investigative reporter for the Washington Examiner. You can follow him on X: @gekaminsky.
EXCLUSIVE — Former Rep. Mayra Flores pocketed over $860,000 in donations between July and September as the Texas Republican looks to unseat Rep. Vicente Gonzalez in 2024, according to fundraising figures shared with the Washington Examiner.
News of the Flores campaign's fundraising comes as Republicans, including the National Republican Congressional Committee, look to paint Gonzalez as downplaying the illegal immigrant crisis on the United States-Mexico border. The 34th Congressional District includes areas between the cities of Brownsville and Corpus Christi, which have large Hispanic populations, and which saw a 27.5% shift in favor of Republicans between 2016 and 2022, according to the NRCC.
"What we've seen happen in Israel should be eye-opening for everyone in the United States," she told the Washington Examiner, referring to the deadly terrorist attack carried out by Hamas against the Jewish state."In the last three years, we've seen terrorists coming into our country and apprehended by our Border Patrol agents. But we don't know how many terrorists are coming into the country that were not caught.
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