Last year I nearly made history as the first Latina Republican elected to Congress from
South Texas...
John,
Not too long ago, Latinos were expected and assumed to be Democrats by anyone with a passive interest in
political demography. In fact, until recently, Latinos were about as Democrat as suburbanites were Republican.
I'm helping to change that narrative. I'm not a "coconut" – – brown on the outside, white on the
inside – as some have called me. And I'm certainly not a "self-hating Latino," as others have labeled me. My name is Monica De
La Cruz-Hernandez, a proud Latina Republican, and I'm running for Congress in Texas' 15th Congressional District to flip a seat RED
which has never been held by a Republican in its HISTORY.
I've been endorsed by Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, and Texas Right to Life among others.
As you may have heard, Republicans only need 5 seats to flip the House Republican, and to put it plainly, without picking up
this seat in South Texas, we will come up short and Democrats will retain their majority.
In 2020, Republicans had the "Year of the Republican Woman" when the number of Republican women in the House more than doubled.
But that is not good enough. We need more! We need more brown Republican women of color.
Culturally, Latinos are conservative: most of us are pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment God-fearing folks. For me and my family, voting
Democrat is simply not an option when AOC is now the standard bearer of the party. But, as the saying goes in Latino communities here in South Texas,
"being Democrat, it's just what you do."
But Democrats have veered so far to the left, the Party of my parents' generation is just unrecognizable.
Consider that in 2020, Joe Biden performed 24% worse in the Rio Grande Valley than Hillary Clinton did four years earlier. South
Texas is ripe for the taking, but I can't do it alone. I cannot self-fund, and that's why I'm asking for you to invest in my campaign today.