GOP running 102 Hispanic candidates in 2022 races

 Washington Examiner:

The House Republicans' congressional campaign arm is seeking to highlight what it says is a record number of Hispanic candidates this cycle. House Republicans are looking to them to make inroads with Hispanic voters and aid the party's efforts to win a majority in the fall.

The National Republican Congressional Committee said a record 102 Hispanic candidates to date ran Republican campaigns for the House this cycle.

"Hispanic voters are abandoning the Democrat Party because they've delivered nothing but broken promises, record high inflation, and soaring crime," NRCC Communications Director Michael McAdams told the Washington Examiner. "Hispanic values of faith, family, and hard work are Republican values, and we are thrilled to have a record number of Hispanics running as House Republicans this cycle."

Republicans say the record number of Republican Hispanic candidates is just one cause for their optimism with voters. Last month, Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) was sworn in after she won an all-party primary to replace former Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela, who resigned earlier this year for a job at a Washington, D.C., law and lobbying firm.

Flores flipped the historically blue 34th Congressional District, spanning from the U.S.-Mexico border at Brownsville, Texas, north for hundreds of miles, and she will hold the seat for the remainder of this congressional term, though Flores is seeking reelection in November in a district that analysts still project leans blue.

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The district Flores won has elected only Democrats for over a 100 years so clearly there is an opportunity there.  The redistricting is caused by Texas adding two more congressional representatives after the recent census. 

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