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Representative Mayra Flores is one of three Republican Latinas vying to transform South Texas politics by shunning moderates and often embracing the extreme.

WASHINGTON โ€” For years, Texas Republicans tried to win the Hispanic vote using a Bush-era brand of compassionate conservatism. The idea was that a moderateโ€™s touch and a softer rhetoric on immigration were key to making inroads with Hispanic voters, particularly in Democratic strongholds along the southern border.

Such was the Texas of old. The Trump age has given rise to a new brand of Texas Republicans, one of whom is already walking the halls of Congress: the far-right Latina.

Representative Mayra Flores became the first Republican to represent the Rio Grande Valley in more than a century after she won a special election last month and flipped the congressional seat from blue to red. She also became the first Latina Republican ever sent by Texas to Congress. Her abbreviated term lasts only through the end of the year, and she is seen as a long shot to win re-election to a full one.

But what is most striking is that Ms. Flores won by shunning moderates, embracing the far right and wearing her support for Donald J. Trump on her sleeve โ€” more Marjorie Taylor Greene than Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Her campaign slogan โ€” โ€œGod, family, countryโ€ โ€” was meant to appeal to what she calls the โ€œtraditional valuesโ€ of her majority-Hispanic district in the border city of Brownsville. She called for President Bidenโ€™s impeachment. She tweeted QAnon hashtags. And she called the Democratic Party the โ€œgreatest threat America faces.โ€

In an interview in her still-barren office the day after her swearing-in ceremony, Ms. Flores was asked whether she considered Mr. Biden the legitimately elected president.

โ€œHeโ€™s the worst president of the United States,โ€ she said.

When asked three more times whether Mr. Biden had been legitimately elected, she repeated the same nonanswer.

By Jennifer Medina

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