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Joan E Greve in Washington DC

SHOCKING: Democrats left v leadership battle plays out in us primaries | Mind Blowing Facts

Progressives see a pattern in how party leaders and center-left groups are targeting their candidates in primaries.
Progressives see a pattern in how party leaders and center-left groups are targeting their candidates in primaries. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

Texas officials have still not declared a winner in the state’s 28th congressional district, where incumbent Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar leads progressive lawyer Jessica Cisneros by 175 votes out of roughly 45,000 ballots cast.

But as progressives wait to see who will win the runoff race, they cannot help but think of what might have been if House Democratic leaders had not come to Cuellar’s assistance. Cuellar secured the endorsements of the top three House Democrats, and the congressman’s campaign was also propped up by millions of dollars in super Pac spending aimed at attacking Cisneros.

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