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South Texas Republican Mayra Flores sworn in as newest member of Congress
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WASHINGTON — Mayra Flores makes historical past when she’s sworn in Tuesday night as Texas’ latest member of Congress: the primary congresswoman born in Mexico, and the primary Republican in a century from South Texas.
Republicans boast that Flores’ victory portends an enormous pink wave in November and a significant shift of loyalties amongst Hispanic voters.
However Flores, a respiratory therapist who campaigned as a Trump-loving, gun-loving border safety hawk, should hit the bottom operating to keep away from changing into a seven-month asterisk.
President Joe Biden carried the district by a 4-point margin – simple pickings in comparison with the 16-point edge Democrats get pleasure from within the new model of the district she’ll compete for in November.
And she or he’ll be dealing with an incumbent, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of McAllen, who jumped from a neighboring district to hunt reelection to reap the benefits of that 16-point edge.
Texas Democrats in Congress had been livid that the nationwide occasion did so little to defend the seat left open when Democrat Filemon Vela resigned to hitch a regulation agency, accusing the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee of taking Hispanic voters without any consideration.
“I hope the DCCC learns their lesson with this earlier than it occurs throughout the nation,” Gonzalez advised Politico, complaining that “they’ve simply forgotten in regards to the brown individuals on the border.”
Flores herself concurs.
“They really feel entitled to our vote, making the identical guarantees time and again and actually not making nothing occur,” she stated on Fox Information’ “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo.”
Republicans poured over $3 million into nabbing the emptiness so they may reap bragging rights heading into the midterms.
Inside Elections’ analyst Nathan Gonzales rated the district a “battlefield” after Flores gained, a severe shift from “Stable Democratic” earlier than the particular election.
“She’ll get pleasure from some momentum and benefits of incumbency together with fundraising and gaining important nationwide consideration after her particular election victory,” he wrote.
Texas has elected Mexico-born males to Congress: In 1919, Carlos Bee, a San Antonio lawyer and state senator born in Saltillo, and in 1997, Ciro Rodriguez, additionally of San Antonio, born in Piedras Negras.
Three of the opposite 18 naturalized Individuals within the Home at the moment had been born in Mexico, all of them male Democrats: Reps. Salud Carbajal and Raul Ruiz of California, and Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García of Illinois.
“I’m the primary Mexican born Congresswoman within the historical past of this nice nation and I STAND WITH TRUMP,” Flores wrote in a fund-raising electronic mail on Tuesday. “The left HATES me for that. They hate that I break their narrative that Trump and the GOP is the occasion of white nationalism. That we’ve NO range.”
Texas Democratic Social gathering chairman Gilberto Hinojosa vowed that “this seat will rightfully return to Democratic arms” within the fall.
And he accused Republicans of spending lavishly on a political feint: “They’re simply utilizing the working-class Hispanic households of the Rio Grande Valley as pawns of their partisan tradition wars.”
Texas A&M will be without its leading scorer for this weekend’s top-10 matchup against Alabama. The Aggies listed senior point guard Wade Taylor IV as out in its SEC-mandated availability report on Friday night.
Meanwhile, Alabama will be without backup guard Houston Mallette, who was listed as out for the matchup against Texas A&M. Earlier on Friday, Alabama head coach Nate Oats said Mallette is having his knees evaluated as the team decides whether or not to sit him for the rest of the season and apply for a medical redshirt.
Taylor leads Texas A&M in both scoring (15.7 points per game) and assists (4.8 per game. The 6-foot, 180-pound senior has scored in double digits in all of his 13 games this season. During Texas A&M’s 100-75 loss at Alabama last year, the Tide held Taylor to 10 points and five rebounds on 4 of 15 shooting, including 2 of 5 from beyond the arc.
According to a report from KWKT FOX 44, Taylor experienced knee tightness during Texas A&M’s 80-60 win over Texas on Jan. 4. The guard left for the locker room during the second half against the Longhorns but was able to return to action, finishing with 13 points on 25 minutes. Taylor did not play during the Aggies’ 80-78 win over Oklahoma on Wednesday. He was replaced by senior Manny Obaseki in the starting lineup.
With Taylor out, Texas A&M leaned on senior guard Zhuric Phelps, who scored a career-high 34 points against Oklahoma, making 11 of 25 shots from the floor, including 6 of 10 from beyond the arc.
Alabama (13-2, 2-0 in the SEC) is set to tip off against Texas A&M (13-2, 2-0) on Saturday at 7 p.m. CT inside Reed Arena in College Station, Texas. The game will be televised on ESPN.
On Friday night, two of college football’s iconic programs will meet with a spot in the College Football Playoff National Championship game on the line.
The Ohio State Buckeyes and Texas Longhorns have their fingerprints all over the sport’s history yet somehow have squared off only three times.
A Fiesta Bowl meeting after the 2008 season. A home-and-home series in 2005 and 2006. That’s all the history the Buckeyes and Longhorns share on the gridiron — until they take the field in the CFP Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on Friday.
Here’s how each of those three matchups played out.
Jan. 5, 2009: Texas 24, Ohio State 21
Although the 2009 Fiesta Bowl experienced a low-scoring first 30 minutes (the Buckeyes led 6-3 at halftime), the fourth quarter offered an ending to remember.
First, Ohio State roared back into the lead with 17 unanswered points after entering the final period trailing 17-6. With just two minutes to respond, Texas put together an impressive 11-play drive that culminated in quarterback Colt McCoy finding wide receiver Quan Cosby for the winning touchdown with 16 seconds remaining.
The McCoy and Cosby connection dominated all game, with the pair linking up 14 times for 171 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
Sept. 9, 2006: Ohio State 24, Texas 7
McCoy’s first encounter with Ohio State wasn’t as pleasant as the Fiesta Bowl.
In a battle of the then-No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the land, it was the top-ranked Buckeyes who made an early-season statement against the defending national champion Longhorns on the road in Austin. Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith, who would go on to win the Heisman Trophy that season, threw for 269 yards and two touchdowns as the Buckeyes scored in all four quarters of the win.
Sept. 10, 2005: Texas 25, Ohio State 22
The first meeting between the Longhorns and Buckeyes came with nearly the same high billing as the 2006 contest, with the two squads squaring off as the No. 2 and No. 4 teams in the country, respectively.
As in 2006, it was the higher-ranked visiting side that came out on top, although the game itself proved to be much closer. Texas jumped out to an early 10-0 lead, but Ohio State battled back and eventually entered halftime, and then the fourth quarter, ahead.
Said final quarter, however, belonged to the Longhorns. Quarterback Vince Young’s 24-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Limas Sweed proved to be the winner, with Texas adding some insurance in the game’s final moments with a safety-inducing sack of Troy Smith in the end zone.
The top-five win was the Longhorns’ first major statement in a campaign that would end with a national championship.
NORTH TEXAS – This week’s snow event will end with a “few flurries” during Friday’s morning commute, according to CBS News Texas meteorologist Jeff Ray.
“But roads will have frozen over,” Ray said.
Expect hazardous road conditions in the morning, as it will be “the worst” the roads have been since the event started on Thursday morning, Ray said.
Late in the morning, temperatures will rise above freezing, which will “help drivers get around the Metroplex,” Ray said.
A cold front is expected Friday, he said.
“We are going to have wind chills in the 20s all day,” Ray said. “By nightfall on Friday, temperatures will drop quickly and water will re-freeze on the roads across the evening. This ice will remain until mid-morning on Saturday before the sun and warmer temperatures in the mid-40s clear the roadways.”
CBS News Texas will continue to provide updates as information becomes available.
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