Republican Raul Reyes is running for a state Senate seat in defiance of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, suggesting Patrick has created an “echo chamber” in the Senate that he wants to break up.
, to succeed him. Gonzales quickly became the favorite of House GOP leaders, who were eager to hold on to the highly competitive district in November.. Trump, then the president, subsequently endorsed Gonzales, who finished 45 votes ahead of Reyes on election night. Reyes requested a recount, and the margin narrowed but not enough to change the outcome.
Flores announced his campaign two days after the initial draft of the Senate map came out, moving so fast that his website still had his 2020 campaign logo on it. Reyes and his supporters have since expended considerable energy painting Flores as a RINO — Republican in name only — who would not fight hard enough in the Senate for conservative priorities like election integrity and border security. They point to his relatively moderate tenure previously in the Senate, when he represented the Democratic-leaning district.
Reyes has also claimed in a mailer that Flores “refused to support” a House bill that would have helped fund a border wall, which Flores’ campaign called a “bald-faced lie.” Flores was a cosponsor of the bill, signing on after it passed the House and four days before it got a hearing in a Senate committee, where it died. In the interview, Reyes did not dispute that Flores was a cosponsor but said he could have been more proactive in supporting the proposal.
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