COOK POLITICAL REPORT: TX-34 moves to TOSS UP

Cook Political Report rates the TX-34 special election a “toss up.”

COOK: “…this race is coming at the worst possible time for Democrats: just a week ago, the Biden administration announced it would rescind Title 42, the Trump-era emergency public health order that allowed border patrol agents to turn away asylum seekers illegally crossing the Mexico border. That gives Flores and Republicans a signature line of attack, given voters’ fears of a growing humanitarian catastrophe in their backyard.”

NRCC COMMENT: “Democrats’ worst-case scenario is playing out in South Texas. Republicans are going to win this special election because Democrats have abandoned voters in the Rio Grande Valley while wreaking havoc with their border crisis.”– NRCC Spokeswoman Torunn Sinclair