Progressive Democrats are criticizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for endorsing a conservative Democratic Texas incumbent with anti-abortion and pro-NRA stances.
of Houston. She also was very positive about the chances of former Air Force Intelligence officer Gina Ortiz Jones winning Texas' 23rd District, after Will Hurd, the only black House Republican, recently declined to run for reelection.
"Okay, so Henry Cuellar is in the audience. Congressman Cuellar from Laredo is here and has a challenger in the primary; you are a Henry Cuellar endorsement?" Cuellar has refused to give back nearly $7,000 in NRA Political Victory Fund donations to his campaigndespite criticism in the wake of gun massacres in El Paso, Dayton, Ohio and California. He has received several thousands of dollars in additional money from the gun-rights group since first being elected to Congress in 2005.
Cuellar's 28th Congressional District, which spans from San Antonio to Mission, Texas, contains Sutherland Springs, where a 2017 church shooting left more than 20 people dead.
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