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Mayra Flores Biography, Age, Family, Career, Spouse, Kids, and Net Worth.
Who is Mayra Flores?
Mayra Nohemi Flores is a well-known American professional health practitioner and politician, who is the representative-elect for Texas’s 34th congressional district. As a member of the Republican Party, she was active in Hidalgo County politics prior to her election to the United States House of Representatives in June 2022. Following Representative Filmon Vela Jr.’s resignation, Flores won a special election to succeed him. Flores will be the first Mexican-born woman to serve in the United States Congress.
Mayra Flores Career
Political career
Early politics
Prior to her congressional campaigns and shortly following graduation from college, Mayra served in the Hidalgo County Republican Party as chair of Hispanic outreach. Flores was raised with conservative values and, despite her parents supporting the Democratic Party, she was drawn to the Republicans due to her anti-abortion views. Prior to her election to Congress, she used hashtags associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory on an Instagram post. Flores has denied supporting QAnon, stating: I’ve never been supportive of it”.
U.S. House of Representatives
2022 general election
Mayra declared her candidacy for the United States House of Representatives in Texas’s 34th congressional district following incumbent Democratic representative Filemon Vela Jr. announcing in March 2021, that he would not seek reelection in 2022. She ran her campaign appealing to Hispanic and Latino Americans and their disillusionment with the Democratic Party, which they have historically supported in South Texas.
After the establishment of new congressional districts as a part of the 2020 redistricting cycle, incumbent Democrat Vicente Gonzalez of the 15th district revealed his candidacy for the new 34th district. Flores and Gonzalez won their respective partisan primaries on March 1, 2022, and will face each other in the general election on November 8, 2022.
2022 special election
Vela announced his early resignation from Congress in March 2022. Briefly following his announcement, Mayra declared her candidacy in the special election on June 14, 2022, to fill the vacancy. Gonzalez however did not run in the special election. Her campaign mainly focused on her family, the economy, border security, and her upbringing as the daughter of immigrants. She defeated Democrat Dan Sanchez of Harlingen with 50.98% of the vote to Sanchez 43.33%, avoiding a runoff. Flores will be the first Mexican-born woman to serve in Congress. Within the special election, Mayra reported $752, 000 in contributions, while Sanchez reported $46,000. She flipped a Democratic House seat to a Republican one.
How old is Mayra Flores?
Mayra Nohemi Flores is aged 37 as of 2022, having been born on January 1, 1986 in Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico. She gained U.S. nationality at the age of 14 and shares her birthday with famous people including Eiichiro Oda, Paul Revere, Anthony Wayne, Betsy Ross, Tim Keefe, Alfred Stieglitz, Qi Baishi, E. M. Forster, and Manuel Roxas, among others.
Mayra Flores Family
Who are Mayra Flores’s parents?
Mayra Nohemi Flores was born to migrant farmworkers in Burgos, Tamaulipas. At the age of 6 years, the family moved to the U.S. and frequently moved throughout Texas during her childhood as her parents work picking cotton, which started in Memphis Texas. She has not shared her parents’ and family information with the media.
Does Mayra Flores have siblings?
Flores has not disclosed her family’s information to the media and it is unknown if she has any siblings or not.
Mayra Flores Education
Flores attended Texas State Technical College Harlingen and later South Texas College and graduated in 2019.
Mayra Flores Interests
Flores is a Christian and served previously as a respiratory therapist.
Mayra Flores Spouse
Flores is currently married to her loving husband, who is a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Together the loving couple has four children in their marriage. However, her husband’s name and information are not known to the media.
Mayra Flores Kids
Flores and her spouse have four children together in their marriage. However, she has not shared their information with the media.
Mayra Flores Height
Flores has a beautiful, stunning, and curvaceous body adding up to an average height of 5 ft 6 in (1.67 m) and a weight of 55 kg (121 lbs).
Mayra Flores Net Worth
The American health practitioner and politician, Flores is a member of the Republican Party. She has been able to garn an accumulative net Worth of approximately $5 million as of 2022.