Eric Flores

What a weird time, right, Stephanie? I mean, it's crazy.

We saw this one candidate in this incredibly, uh, tough race in a battleground district in South Texas, majority Latino voters, who in the primary, Eric Flores, was, uh, promoting an endorsement from Donald Trump, but now in a general election when it's clear voters are very frustrated.

I talked to voters over the week, and I'm actually here in South Texas right now, who are saying that they were expecting Donald Trump to bring down prices for them, and they're frustrated.

They're small business owners, it was a couple, and they told me they were not impressed with what they've seen in the last one, uh, year and a half.

The 28th District, Congressman Henry Cuellar looking to hold off Republican challenger Democratic turncoat and Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina displaying a fair amount of ego and referring to himself in third person in this video.

Similar factors for Congressman Vicente Gonzalez in the 34th District against Republican and former federal prosecutor Eric Flores.

And the 15th, which has been the most dramatic story down there, with Democrat Bobby Polito's rise to threaten Republican Congresswoman Monica de la Cruz.

CNBC finds economics at the top of the priority list for voters in South Texas, followed by concerns over Trump's immigration crackdown and how that's depressed the economy down there.

Hajra Jilani at the San Antonio Express News says the Congressional Leadership Fund, or CLF, a powerful House Republican super PAC, is reallocating approximately $3 million previously designated to support Tijerina, redirecting those resources toward a more desperate defense of Monica de la Cruz, who appears to be primed to lose her seat to Bobby Pulido.

She's desperate to the point of recently trying to distance herself from Trump's immigration policies.

And some of that CLF money is being redirected to Eric Flores and his attempt to replace Vicente Gonzalez.

All of this can be seen as further evidence that the redistricting of South Texas that Donald Trump ordered and Greg Abbott delivered after multiple special sessions and a dramatic Democratic quorum break is not working out for the GOP as they had planned.

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was in McAllen in the Rio Grande Valley having a big rally yesterday.

For Monica De La Cruz in Texas 15 and Tano Tiarina in 28 and Eric Flores in 34 and Carlos De La Cruz in District 35.

He says, I'm telling you the polling's wrong.

We're excited.

So if you look in some of these swing districts like in South Texas, I mean, I was down there a couple of weeks ago.

We have Tano Tiarina and Eric Flores, for example, who are recruits that we brought into the races to flip blue seats to red down there.

The Henry Cuellar seat and the Vicente Gonzalez seats, those are marginal districts.

And they're looking at our candidates who are just speaking with common sense.

His post showed the congressman with his wife doing sightseeing and a photo from a bed inside a top floor luxury hotel room next to the beach.

The fifth third Democrat representative was fighting to hold his South Texas seat against Republican Eric Flores in November.

Myra Flores was defeated by Eric in the primary.

But Gonzalez took aim at Flores in 2025.

That is a race Republicans need to win.

Because of the headwinds, it's going to be hard.

This Eric Flores, he's a star, and we've got to get rid of Vincente Gonzalez.

He is a really pretty nasty piece of work, in my opinion.