Just a day after Democrats forcefully recommitted to protecting abortion rights, a U.S. House leader was set to swoop in to Texas to rally alongside Rep. Henry Cuellar, one of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress.
The 17-year incumbent is in his toughest reelection campaign, facing a May 24 primary runoff against progressive Jessica Cisneros. The vote comes at an awkward time for Cuellar, who finds himself at sharp odds with his party at a highly visible moment when Democrats are mostly united in outrage over the leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 that legalized abortion.
