{"id":1096929,"date":"2021-12-08T00:43:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T05:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096929"},"modified":"2021-12-08T00:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T05:43:56","slug":"democrat-rep-henry-cuellars-primary-challenger-receives-endorsement-from-far-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-rep-henry-cuellars-primary-challenger-receives-endorsement-from-far-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar&#039;s Primary Challenger Receives Endorsement from Far-Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-rep-henry-cuellars-primary-challenger-receives-endorsement-from-far-left%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096929&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cuellar-302-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Despite Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar\u2019s (D-TX) attempts to please the far-left side of his party by voting to support the House Democrats\u2019 reconciliation package, his House colleague and leftist organization endorsed his Democrat primary challenger.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Cisneros is a Democrat trying to take out&nbsp;Cuellar in the Democrat primary next year. Last year she ran against him in the primary as well but failed to unseat&nbsp;Cuellar after only <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Jessica_Cisneros\">receiving<\/a> 48.2 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Far-left Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-york\/albany\/story\/2020\/06\/03\/ocasio-cortez-endorses-bowman-over-incumbent-engel-1290778\">endorsed<\/a> by so-called \u201csquad\u201d member&nbsp;Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) last year when he successfully unseated longtime incumbent&nbsp;Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamaalBowmanNY\/status\/1467861812159070210\">endorsed<\/a>&nbsp;Cisneros on Monday in an attempt to elect more radical members to the House.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cI am so proud to endorse my sister [Cisneros]<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> in TX-28! At a time when reproductive justice might take a 50-year lapse, immigration continues to be a human rights crisis, and our planet\u2019s wellbeing declines, we need fighters like her in Congress,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamaalBowmanNY\/status\/1467861812159070210\">wrote<\/a> on social media.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.652173913043\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am so proud to endorse my sister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JCisnerosTX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JCisnerosTX<\/a> in TX-28!<\/p>\n<p>At a time when reproductive justice might take a 50 year lapse, immigration continues to be a human rights crisis and our planet&#8217;s wellbeing declines, we need fighters like her in Congress. <\/p>\n<p>Jessica is ready! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lRU69NGBQF\">pic.twitter.com\/lRU69NGBQF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamaal Bowman (@JamaalBowmanNY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamaalBowmanNY\/status\/1467861812159070210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Additionally, EMILY\u2019s List, a left-wing&nbsp;political group that backs Democrat woman candidates, announced on Tuesday they would be backing&nbsp;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Cisneros for the second time. The group supported her in the 2020 Democrat primary and got within four percent. The&nbsp;EMILY\u2019s List endorsement will give her a&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">significant financial boost.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.158640226629\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilyslist?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@emilyslist<\/a> was in our corner when we earned 48.2% of the vote and were so close to defeating a Koch-backed, anti-choice incumbent last cycle. <\/p>\n<p>I am beyond honored to have the support of EMILY&#8217;s List once again in an effort to defeat the last anti-choice Democrat in Congress. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4oUGUaicn0\">https:\/\/t.co\/4oUGUaicn0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jessica Cisneros (@JCisnerosTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JCisnerosTX\/status\/1468244154685792270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Express News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/legislature\/article\/EMILY-s-List-endorses-Jessica-Cisneros-in-16680579.php\">wrote<\/a> that the organization spent over&nbsp;$1.2 million on her in the election. The money was spent on ads that were created against the incumbent.&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Laphonza Butler, the president of&nbsp;EMILY\u2019s List,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/legislature\/article\/EMILY-s-List-endorses-Jessica-Cisneros-in-16680579.php\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Cisneros \u201chas proven that she has what it takes to bring real change and opportunity to families in her community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While the far-left appears to oppose&nbsp;Cuellar, he has been a close ally od House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He has voted with the Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/represent\/members\/P000197-nancy-pelosi\/compare-votes\/C001063-henry-cuellar\/116\">98 percent<\/a> of the time in the most recent Congress. That includes the House Democrats\u2019 $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill \u2014 which President Biden signed into law \u2014 and the&nbsp;$1.75 trillion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/19\/house-passes-behemoth-build-back-better-act\/\">Build Back Better Act<\/a>, also known as the Democrats\u2019 reconciliation infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,&nbsp;Cuellar voted for the&nbsp;reconciliation package which ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/pelosi-on-reconciliation-hyde-amendment-not-in-the-bill\/\">did not ban<\/a>&nbsp;taxpayer-funded abortion, as would the&nbsp;Hyde amendment and Helms amendment \u2014 which are&nbsp;measures that prohibit taxpayer funding of elective abortion in domestic and foreign health programs. The bill also would&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/biden-bill-would-give-amnesty-to-6-5-million-illegal-immigrants-cbo-says\">grant&nbsp;amnesty<\/a>&nbsp;to over six million illegal immigrants, according to the&nbsp;Congressional Budget Office (CBO).<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar\u2019s (D-TX) attempts to please the far-left side of his party by voting to support the House Democrats\u2019 reconciliation package, his House colleague and leftist organization &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}