SAN ANTONIO (AP) — 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.
Cisneros, an immigration lawyer who supports abortion rights, finished roughly 1,000 votes behind Cuellar in March, when neither candidate met the majority threshold to win outright.
