It’s a rematch in South Texas: Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar faces a major challenge from progressive candidate Jessica Cisneros. Two years ago, Cuellar nearly beat Cisneros to keep his seat.
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It’s a rematch in South Texas: Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar faces a major challenge from progressive candidate Jessica Cisneros. Two years ago, Cuellar nearly beat Cisneros to keep his seat.
Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images; Brandon Bell / Getty Images
The first battle between longtime Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar, a fixture of South Texas politics, and progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros will continue.
No candidate received more than 50% of the vote in Tuesday’s primary, according to The Associated Press, which means the two will progress to an overflow in May. The third candidate, Tannya Benavides, got a fraction of the votes and was eliminated.
The Republican primaries are also set for a spillover.
Cuellar, 66, is a nine-term congressman who has leanings on abortion rights and other issues, and is considered one of the most conservative members of the House Democrats’ caucus. . Two years ago, he narrowly won by four points over Cisneros, a 28-year-old immigration attorney who has the backing of progressives like Senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. And Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN. Y.
This year’s preliminary was mixed in January, when the FBI raided Cuellar’s campaign office and Laredo’s home in an investigation whose specifics were still murky.
Cuellar has not been publicly charged by law enforcement, but the raid – believed to have come from an inquiry On US businessmen and their ties to Azerbaijan, NPR has not confirmed a single detail – provided campaign raids to Cisneros and silent founding support to Cuellar.
Cuellar denied any wrongdoing and campaigned on the money he brought back to the district. He paints Cisneros as a far-left, anti-police candidate whose politics won’t be able to work across the aisle and get things done in Congress.
Cisneros was so reliant on the FBI raid and its effects that Cuellar faced interests outside of the working people of the school district.
A recent 30-second campaign point from Cisneros’s 20-second campaign to the FBI raid on Cuellar properties, sees Cisneros as a refreshing alternative, unburdened by vested interests company special.
Republicans have their eye on the seat, especially after gaining an edge in South Texas in the 2020 election.
