Speaking in a wonderful interview with Breitbart News Saturday, former congresswoman and upcoming 2026 candidate Mayra Flores commented on fighting to keep RINOs out of office, including in her district, Texas District 34. Flores’s comments come alongside a larger fight between much of the Establishment GOP and the MAGA part of the party, with a number of notorious RINOs dropping out of office in the run-up to the 2026 midterms.
Such is what she explained to Breitbart News, noting that she’s a longtime Texan politician and is working to continue advancing MAGA representation in Congress through flipping districts and pushing for redistricting, which has become another major issue in the run-up to the midterms thanks to Texas’s redistricting push.
Beginning her commentary, Flores explained how she had made huge strides forward for MAGA in Texas in 2022, telling Breitbart News, “This is a very important race. You know, I’ve worked in South Texas for many years. As you know, we made history in 2022, flipped this district that had not been flipped for over 150 years.”
Continuing, Flores further explained how the redistricting Democrats pushed made her lose her seat, saying, “Due to redistricting in 2022, we came short two points. We lost our reelection. The redistricting did not help us at all. They made it practically four times harder for us to stay in the seat.”
But, she noted, now the Texas state legislature has helped out significantly with its redistricting changes, saying, “Thanks to President Trump and the Texas legislators, they redrew the maps recently and were approved by the governor and signed by the governor, and this map is a path for us to victory. This map in Texas is a representation of what Texas looks like.”
And, explaining why Democrats are so hostile to the idea of redistricting, she said, “The problem is that these Hispanics voted for President Trump, and that’s why they’re so upset. And because of the work that we put in Texas 34, you see a lot of opportunists wanting to get in this race.”
She added, getting into the matter of her RINO opponent and keeping such slimy Establishment Republicans who just work with the Democrats out of Congress, saying, “And I’m happy to see people wanting to run in Texas district 34 in the Republican primary. It brings more people in the primary race. But what I do not want is RINOS.”
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Noting that her opponent, Eric Flores, who shares the same last name as her but is not related to her, voted for Biden in the 2020 election, saying, “What I do not want is someone who voted for Biden in 2020, there is only one Flores that did not vote for Biden in 2020, and that’s me. And you know, yes, this individual worked for the Biden administration, for the DOJ. And so while I was in Congress fighting the Biden administration, he was working for the Biden administration.”
She added, further commenting on the need to keep RINOs out of Congress, “So this is why this Republican primary is so important, because we want your strongest America first type of members in Congress, especially right now, with such a small majority, and we need to keep the House, and that’s what matters to me the most.”