Updated Oct 16, 2026, 2:28 PM ET
Republican · 3 November 2026

Eric Flores

Eric Flores is the Republican nominee for Texas's 34th congressional district in 2026, challenging Democratic incumbent Vicente Gonzalez after winning the Republican primary with 56.7% of the vote.

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  1. Guns, F-bombs, fortune cookies. What do wild campaign ads actually say?

    Eric Flores is the Republican candidate challenging incumbent Democrat Vicente Gonzalez in Texas’s 34th Congressional District (TX-34).

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  2. Speaker Johnson: ‘Don’t believe the crazy polls, they’re wrong’ about South Texas

    The article discusses Speaker Johnson urging voters not to trust polls about South Texas politics and notes campaigning support for Republican Eric Flores in Texas's newly redrawn CD 34.

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Biography & Campaign Analysis

2026 race

Eric Flores is the Republican nominee in the 2026 election for Texas's 34th congressional district, a Gulf Coast seat that runs from Brownsville to most of Corpus Christi. The incumbent is Democrat Vicente Gonzalez, who was re-elected with 51.3% of the vote in 2024.

In an eight-candidate Republican primary Flores won the nomination outright with 56.7% of the vote, defeating former U.S. representative Mayra Flores, who took 23.7%, and lobbyist Luis Buentello, who placed third.

In the general election on November 3, 2026, Flores faces Gonzalez, the incumbent U.S. representative.