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Mayra Flores: “The middle class is just vanishing. I mean, it's…”

Featuring: Mayra Flores, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Texas, District 34

Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34

Published May 13, 2024 | Video Starts at 17:59

We end up, you know, paying the consequences. And look, rich people, I'm sure, are suffering. But the people that are suffering the most is a middle class. And The middle class is just vanishing. I mean, it's disappearing in this country because of the policies that are being implemented. And I just think that we need tax relief. You know, we need that relief now more than ever. We need to remove some of those restrictions that are stopping those good paying jobs to come here to South Texas. (17:59–18:09)

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Asserts that current policies are causing the middle class to disappear.

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Mayra Flores

“I was born in Burgos, Tamalipas, Mexico.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 04:51-04:54
“I was six years old when I came here to United States.”
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“My father, being an American citizen, was able to file for us to come here to the United States.”
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“I would only be here six months out of the year because my parents were migrant workers.”
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“We would go up north, up in the panhandle. There's a small town called Memphis, Texas.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 05:43-05:50
“I started working alongside my parents at the age of 14.”
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“They would work in the cotton field in the summer, what you call it, El Hasadon, removing all the cotton, all the weeds from the cotton.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 06:42-06:54
“My parents after that season was over, they would work at a peanut factory there in Memphis, Texas as well.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 07:46-07:54
“My dad decided to also just stay here in south Texas. Like he started a trucking company as well.”
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“My mom also started school. So proud of my mom, even though she didn't have an opportunity to get an education at a young age. She became a…”
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“She [a caregiver] has three jobs to be able to maintain her family.”
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“He was a police officer for a few years and he became a border patrol.”
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“I finally graduated and I became a respiratory care practitioner in 2014.”
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“I worked with children with disabilities for two years.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 11:13-11:23
“After two years, I decided to work with the elderly community, which I loved. Worked with them for about five years.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 11:17-11:25
“Many [people] don't even know that [drugs are] laced with fentanyl, and that's how many actually overdose and die.”
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“Many [business owners] are struggling.”
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“Many of [the elderly's] children are helping their parents, and many of them are having to go back to work because it is not enough anymore.”
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“I served here in south Texas as a respiratory care practitioner.”
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“They've told us that you have to, you know, graduate from Harvard, be a lawyer. No disrespect to lawyers, but we have plenty of them in…”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 13:15-13:26
“We need more teachers. You know, we need plumbers, we need law enforcement. We need nurses. We need respiratory care practitioners.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 13:35-13:46
“The average American right now is paying $1,000 more than they were three and a half years ago.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 14:03-14:10
“It's not because she has more expenses, the same expenses that she had four years ago, but because of the cost of living, she now has to…”
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“Cameron County's appraisal taxes... are actually going up by over 150%.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 17:11-17:20
“It's a lie when they tell you that they're only going to tax the rich.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 17:27-17:32
“We need to remove some of those restrictions that are stopping those good paying jobs to come here to South Texas.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 18:16-18:27
“The reason why we are seeing this inflation and this increase of cost of living is because of the policies at the federal level.”
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“The reason [for the lack of customers] is because of the economy.”
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“We don't have a revenue problem in this country. We have a spending problem.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 19:26-19:31
“We're sending, you know, 60 billion to Ukraine, billions to, you know, Taiwan, Israel.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 19:40-19:49
“We have not gotten back to pre-pandemic spending.”
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“We need to go back to pre-pandemic spending.”
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“I don't believe in making cuts to the American people, but I believe that we need to stop sending money that we don't have abroad.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 20:28-20:36
“President Joe Biden actually, on day one removed all President Trump's policies that were actually working, and he put in place policies…”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 21:54-22:13
“President Barack Obama was known as a deporter in chief. He actually has more deportations than President Trump.”
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“Under this administration, we've had over 9 million illegal crossing.”
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“Just last year alone, $450 billion was spent in housing and caring of illegal immigrants.”
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“Under this administration, they have actually lost track of 85,000 children.”
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“Under the Trump administration, they were doing DNA testing to make sure that there was, they were related to the family. They're no longer…”
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“The United States is the number one in child trafficking, the number one in child pornography. Mexico is the number one provider.”
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“Vicente Gonzalez voted against deporting illegal immigrants that actually commit crimes here in America.”
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“Fentanyl is the leading cause of death now in the United States.”
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“I think our top priority going into Congress for me is reducing the cost of living and inflation.”
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“I do support 100% in that investment [expanding and improving international bridges].”
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“Elected officials and candidates should not be allowed to use AI.”
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“We do need to be careful with our children and the types of things that they're seeing on all these platforms.”
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“I don't think that the government should have the right to ban any platform.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 36:15-36:20
“I don't support the ban of TikTok.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 36:19-36:23
“Vicente Gonzalez did vote in favor of banning TikTok, and now Biden as well signed it, but yet he uses it.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 36:23-36:32
“All social media platforms should be held to the same standard.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 36:39-36:43
“I don't think that we should allow any president to have the authority to ban any platform.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 36:45-36:54
“I support SpaceX and any company that honestly wants to come to South Texas and invest and give South Texas people good paying jobs.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 38:50-39:01
“I don't think that there should be any exceptions for SpaceX or for any other company. They should follow the same rules that everyone else.”
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“It's important to support SpaceX and LNG that are going to bring good paying jobs to South Texas.”
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“We got to protect this water, and we got to make sure that, you know, SpaceX and LNG are doing the right thing.”
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“It's important that, you know, members of Congress are there as well, part of the conversation in making sure that they are following, you…”
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“Many do not have the luxury to go out and eat at a restaurant.”
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“I 100% support Social Security and Medicare.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 54:01-54:05
“Our elderly are actually hurting tremendously because they have a fixed income.”
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“Vicente Gonzalez, not too long ago voted in favor of [men] playing in women's sports.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 54:54-55:02
“I 100% stand with women in making sure that, you know, women have, you know, the resources and the, and the healthcare and the good quality…”
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“I 100% support family leave for families.”
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“My top priority is cost of living. We got to bring cost of living down and improve the economy in this country.”
Meet Mayra Flores - Candidate for US Congress for District 34 | Uploaded May 13, 2024 | 56:06-56:14
“I saw the amount of people that went to go vote at these last local elections, and, you know, we're disappointed with our taxes. And, you…”
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“We cannot continue this path that we're going we will lose our country if we continue this path.”
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