TX-15: Recount gives Texas Democrat Michelle Vallejo US House primary win
Source: Associated Press
Recount gives Texas Democrat Vallejo US House primary win
June 17, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A recount in Texas has affirmed Democrat Michelle Vallejo as her party’s nominee for a new congressional district that Republicans are aggressively targeting this November as they demonstrate new strength with Hispanic voters along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Vallejo defeated Ruben Ramirez by 35 votes, according to results of a recount announced Friday by the Texas Democratic Party. Ramirez had requested the recount after trailing by 20 votes in a May 24 runoff.
The Associated Press had not previously called the race, pending the outcome of the recount.
The victory by Vallejo sets up a significant test this fall for progressive Democrats who backed her in the 15th Congressional District, one of two new U.S. House seats awarded to booming Texas after a decade of explosive growth driven by new Latino residents.
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