Wade decision making abortion a constitutional right was on the verge of being overturned. Supreme Court signaled that the 1973 Roe v. In the closing weeks of the race, abortion rights groups poured money and resources on the ground and across TV in South Texas after a leaked draft opinion from the U.S.
The 29-year-old Cisneros, who was an intern in Cuellar’s Washington office in 2014, had also challenged Cuellar in 2020, losing to him by just 4 percentage points. In March, Cisneros, an immigration attorney, forced the runoff after she came within 1,000 votes of Cuellar, a nine-term incumbent, in the primarily Hispanic district with a large Catholic population. ET Friday.Įlection officials in Bexar County, where Cisneros has a significant lead over Cuellar among ballots counted, said they will not release results of an undisclosed number of ballots that require voters to cure an issue preventing it from being counted until Tuesday. Henry Cuellar and his progressive challenger, Jessica Cisneros, remained too early to call Friday.Ĭuellar led Cisneros by 175 votes, or 0.4 percentage points, out of 45,209 ballots counted as of 3 p.m. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas primary runoff between Democratic U.S.
