TX-10: A Bernie Democrat Will Again Try to Flip Texas' 10th District
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Texas’ 10th Congressional District wraps around the northern fringes of Austin, sweeps through the small-town headquarters of Blue Bell ice cream and farm country, and reaches across the western suburbs of Houston. Since 2004 the district has voted eight times to send Republican Michael McCaul to the House of Representatives.
But the district is changing as the Austin and Houston areas grow, and its deep red politics are showing a purple tinge. McCaul faces a tough fight this November from Democrat Mike Siegel, a progressive who supports “Medicare for All” and was endorsed by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
The fight is actually a rematch: Siegel and McCaul faced off in 2018, with Siegel losing by only a few percentage points. Last month, Siegel emerged the victor from a primary runoff against Pritesh Gandhi, a physician who told voters he’d be more electable than Siegel in the general contest.
To fend off Siegel a second time, McCaul is running what Corry Bliss, a top Republican strategist, calls the most “aggressive and sophisticated” House campaign in the country. Siegel, a civil rights attorney in Austin, says that’s proof that McCaul sees him as a real threat: “It shows how scared he is.”
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