GOP Rep. Mayra Flores Of Texas Loses And Gripes That 'Red Wave Did Not Happen'

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GOP Rep. Mayra Flores Of Texas Loses And Gripes That 'Red Wave Did Not Happen'

Ron Dicker

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Rep. Mayra Flores (R-Texas) lost Tuesday and reacted with a big “RED” rant.

She won a special election to gain the seat in June but surrendered it in a defeat to Democrat Vicente Gonzalez in the midterms.

“The RED WAVE did not happen,” she tweeted after she was projected to lose. “Republicans and Independents stayed home. DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE RESULTS IF YOU DID NOT DO YOUR PART!”

The RED WAVE did not happen. Republicans and Independents stayed home. DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE RESULTS IF YOU DID NOT DO YOUR PART!

— Mayra Flores (@MayraFlores2022) November 9, 2022

Flores checked many of the boxes for conservative extremists. She expressed her “love” for Donald Trump. She advanced election fraud claims and a conspiracy theory that “antifa” activists were behind the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. She also repeatedly used a QAnon hashstag in now-deleted posts on social media, CNN previously reported.

But her South Texas district apparently had enough, according to the results.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.

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This district, TX-34, was redrawn after the 2020 census (Texas added two districts) and it placed her up against a well-entrenched D incumbent, so this isn't all that surprising.

The redrawing made TX-15 (a neighboring district to TX-34) pretty safely Republican and made TX-34 more solidly Democrat.

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I’m just glad Tennessee finally outlawed slavery. Yes, that was on my ballot yesterday.