Republican Mayra Flores is leading her Democrat opponent Dan Sanchez in the special election for Texas’s 34th congressional district, a new poll finds.
Flores’s internal polling, conducted by Ragnar Research, shows her leading with 24 percent against Sanchez at 19 percent. About 41 percent of voters in the district remain undecided.
“Republicans have a real chance to win this district for the first time ever and flip a Democrat-held seat,” pollster Chris Perkins wrote in a memo reviewed by Politico.
The poll also showed that voters in the deep blue United States-Mexico border community are turned off by President Joe Biden. About 55 percent of voters in the district disapprove of his presidency while just 41 percent approve.
Biden’s poll numbers in the region bode well for Republicans, the poll found, where Republicans lead Democrats by three percentage points in a…
