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Navy veteran Jay Furman has gained the Republican main runoff within the Texas twenty eighth Congressional District, establishing a conflict with embattled Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar in November.
Cuellar and his spouse have been charged with accepting practically $600,000 in bribes from two overseas entities, in keeping with an indictment in federal court docket in Texas. The alleged scheme befell from late 2014 by way of not less than November 2021, the indictment says.
A longtime fixture in Texas politics who has been focused by progressives over his opposition to abortion rights and different average stances, Cuellar has nonetheless survived a sequence of aggressive primaries lately. The twenty eighth District, which stretches from the San Antonio space to Laredo and the encompassing Rio Grande Valley counties, was a GOP goal final cycle however Cuellar ended up profitable a tenth time period decisively.
Nevertheless, the legal prices will take a look at the energy of the congressman’s maintain on the seat. They might result in a aggressive basic election or on the very least turn into a flashpoint nationally with Republicans utilizing Cuellar to painting Democrats as corrupt.