“I think people want us to govern from the center, whether we are Democrats or Republicans,” Cuellar said in an interview with TexasTribune. “I think people are getting tired of the extreme left and the extreme right.”
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar , seen in San Antonio in May, faces Republican Cassy Garcia, a former staffer of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and member of the Trump administration, for Congressional District 28 in South Texas.Henry Cuellar
Cuellar’s status as one of the few remaining “moderate” Democrats may also be paying dividends for his fundraising, as he took in almost $4.9 million as of the end of June, smashing his usual pace for previous years. At that point in his last race against Republican Sandra Whitten, he had raised $2.4 million. In 2018, he had raised just $1.3 million. The next fundraising disclosure deadline is Oct. 15.
Cuellar characterizes his position on abortion access as moderate, saying abortion should be “rare, legal and safe.” “That’s a position that I’ve had, but now we see that the Democrats have gone one particular direction and Republicans have gone a different direction,” Cuellar said. “In many ways, my position has not changed from when I was in the state Legislature.”
“Right now anything Republican for me is an absolute danger signal,” Bruni said. “Generally speaking, another Republican in Congress would be disastrous for us.” “Of course I have a place in the Democratic Party. The question is, do those people have a place in the Democratic Party?”. “Let me be me and I’ll keep this seat as a Democrat.”
But Republicans don’t think Cuellar is conservative enough, and they are throwing millions of dollars behind Garcia, who says she truly embodies the values of the South Texas district.
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