TX-24: Candace Valenzuela: The Black Latina on a mission to flip her Texas district blue
Texas is shaping up to be one of the biggest battleground states in the country heading into November. With the rising influence of Latinx voters and a recent wave of progressive campaigns, candidates like Candace Valenzuela are ready to make big impacts.
Valenzuela overcame a lot on her journey to becoming a candidate. From poverty, fleeing domestic abuse as a child to homelessness, and to becoming the first person in her family to attend college.
She is the only Latina challenger running in Texas for this cycle. If elected to Congress, Valenzuela could become the first Black Latina woman elected to Congress in US history, joining Ritchie Torres in his historic win to become the first Afro-Latino elected.
Valenzuela was the first congressional candidate in 2020 to be endorsed by the Tri-Caucus: The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and Congressional Asian American Pacific American Caucus.
She has received endorsements from Julian Castro, Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and more.
Her platform runs on tackling income inequality, affordable healthcare, public education, criminal justice reform, affordable housing, gun violence, immigration, a woman’s right to choose and more.
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