to be safer for Democrats and would have had a Biden margin of 16 points. The new boundaries will be used in the November general election, which will determine who serves in the two-year term that begins next year.to call a special election to fill the seat, but the timing of that depends on multiple factors.
The next uniform election after that is Nov. 8. But Abbott also has the option of calling what is known as an “emergency special election,” which would allow him to bypass the uniform election dates and schedule the election on any Tuesday or Saturday between 36 and 64 days after he calls it. “Filemon Vela is abandoning us while we have a crisis on our border and families can’t afford groceries and gas because prices are so high,” Flores said in a statement. “I will never abandon our community and will absolutely be a candidate in any special election for Texas’ 34th District.”, who is the incumbent in the neighboring 15th Congressional District. The McAllen lawmaker decided to switch districts last year after redistricting made the 15th District more competitive for Republicans.
. Much of their energy has focused so far on the 15th District, which Biden won by only 2 percentage points. Redistricting turned it into a district that Biden would have lost by 3 percentage points, and the Republican nominee is Monica De La Cruz, who ran against Gonzalez in 2020 and came surprisingly close to beating him.
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