The National Republican Congressional Committee spotlights Monica De La Cruz of Texas to kick off new initiative to highlight candidates’ diversity and unique stories
said in a statement."Republicans have smashed every recruiting record we set last cycle and we are excited for voters to see who Republican candidates are and what they represent."
Republican candidate Monica De La Cruz, the 2022 GOP nominee in Texas' 15th Congressional District, appears in a digital ad released by the National Republican Congressional Committee Cruz is making her second straight bid for Congress in a district that stretches from the outskirts of San Antonio south the McAllen along the southern border with Mexico.
Texas 15 is one of five districts along the southern border that the NRCC’s aiming to flip from blue to red inas the party tries to win back the House majority it lost in the 2018 midterms. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, the Democratic incumbent in Texas 15 is running this November for the open seat race in the neighboring 34th District. Gonzalez won election to Congress in 2016 by nearly 20 points and cruised to re-election in 2018 by 21 points. But he edged De La Cruz by just three points in the 2020 election.If De La Cruz wins in November, she would be the first Republican to represent the district in over a century.
The NRCC says their initiative will feature one candidate per month leading up to the November elections. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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