Mayra Flores fires back after New York Times calls her ‘far-right Latina’: Paper knows ‘nothing about me’

‘I have received only hate from the liberal media,’ Flores told Fox News Digital

The Times article, written by national politics reporter Jennifer Medina, focused on Flores and two other Texas Latina GOP candidates’ faith, pro-life views, support for stronger border security and former President Trump, seemingly referring to them as views the “far-right” “extreme” shares.

The paper also noted Flores would not say if President Biden was legitimately elected president and has shared QAnon hashtags; she has responded that she does not support the latter conspiracy theory and only used the hashtag to “reach more people.” It also dinged her for once retweeting a post that called the Jan. 6 riot a “setup” by the far-left group Antifa.

“Representative Mayra Flores is one of three Republican Latinas vying to transform South Texas politics by shunning moderates and often embracing the extreme,” Medina wrote. She went on to list their shared “right-wing views on immigration, the 2020 election and abortion,” as some of her examples.

Flores is the first Republican Latina ever elected to Congress from Texas, and she is also the first female Mexican-born member of the House of Representatives. After winning a special election for the 34th Congressional District, she will face an uphill battle in November against current 15th Congressional District Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, after a newly redrawn map favoring him.

The paper did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Fox News Digital.

Conservatives pushed back on the notion that these candidates’ traditional conservative beliefs were radical.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Press Secretary Christina Pushaw tweeted, “Everyone who disagrees with the legacy media Stalinists is ‘far-right’ and ‘extreme.'”

She also mocked the paper’s characterization of what views the “far-right” embraced.

Substack journalist and frequent media critic Glenn Greenwald also claimed the media had drifted from framing the GOP as a White nationalist party under Trump to worrying he gave rise to the “far-right Latina.”

National Republican Congressional Committee Communications Director Michael McAdams slammed the paper for “trying to paint [Flores] as an extremist.”

“Liberals hate that she represents a threat to their failed status quo,” he wrote in a tweet.

Communications strategist and political writer Giancarlo Sopo also hit the paper for their characterization of Flores and fellow Republican candidate Cassy Garcia as “far-right Latinas.”

He compared the Times’ coverage of left-wing Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to the two Republican candidates.