{"id":1127181,"date":"2021-12-17T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T06:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1127181"},"modified":"2021-12-17T01:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T06:29:09","slug":"far-left-backed-jessica-cisneros-surges-in-poll-against-texas-democrat-rep-henry-cuellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-left-backed-jessica-cisneros-surges-in-poll-against-texas-democrat-rep-henry-cuellar\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-Left-Backed Jessica Cisneros Surges in Poll Against Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ffar-left-backed-jessica-cisneros-surges-in-poll-against-texas-democrat-rep-henry-cuellar%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=1127181&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\/12\/Oct-1-2021-Rep-Henry-Cuellar-D-TX-mask-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Jessica Cisneros, the far-left-backed&nbsp;primary opponent to Texas Democrat incumbent Rep.&nbsp;Henry Cuellar, led in a hypothetical primary poll in the battleground district and took a more significant lead after signing the&nbsp;U.S. Term Limits (USTL) pledge.<\/p>\n<p>Cisneros edged out&nbsp;Cuellar by one point in the poll, 36 to 35 percent, when the&nbsp;likely Democrat voters in Texas\u2019s 28th District were asked about the two candidates.<\/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>However, the poll revealed that&nbsp;Cisneros surged with likely Democrat voters in the district by 35 points \u2014 57 to 22 percent \u2014 when the respondents were told that&nbsp;Cisneros signed a USTL pledge in support of&nbsp;a constitutional amendment while Cuellar opposes term limits.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also found that 84 percent of the respondents \u201csupport\u201d&nbsp;congressional term limits, and 74 percent said they preferred putting a limit of six years on House members.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.980198019802\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m endorsing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JCisnerosTX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JCisnerosTX<\/a> for Congress in Texas\u2019 28th District because she\u2019s fighting for working families, not big money\u2014and she knows that when progressives are unapologetic about who we\u2019re in this battle for, we win. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oyi1YgHiSD\">https:\/\/t.co\/oyi1YgHiSD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ewarren\/status\/1468619441747472384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis poll confirms that voters are tired of the status quo in Washington and ready for change,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/pr\/new-poll-cisneros-surges-against-cuellar-after-signing-term-limit-pledge\">said<\/a> the&nbsp;Executive Director of U.S. Term Limits&nbsp;Nick Tomboulides. \u201cWe applaud Jessica Cisneros for signing the pledge and making a commitment to support real term limits on Congress.\u201d The Digitial Journal acknowledged that \u201cCuellar has refused to sign the U.S. Term Limits pledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If elected, Cisneros signing the pledge means she would&nbsp;cosponsor and vote for the&nbsp;amendment to limit House members to three terms and senators to two terms,&nbsp;Digitial Journal noted.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/pr\/new-poll-cisneros-surges-against-cuellar-after-signing-term-limit-pledge\">released<\/a> on December 16 and conducted by&nbsp;RMG Research, a group owned and operated by&nbsp;Scott Rasmussen. There were&nbsp;400&nbsp;potential primary&nbsp;Democrat voters from Texas\u2019s 28th District who were asked the survey questions. No margin of error was given.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months,&nbsp;Cisneros has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/09\/democrat-rep-henry-cuellar-primary-challenger-receives-more-far-left-endorsements\/\">garnished<\/a> endorsements from&nbsp;Cuellar\u2019s&nbsp;far-left colleagues in the House and Senate, such as&nbsp;Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and&nbsp;Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), as well as&nbsp;left-leaning organizations such as the Sunrise Movement, NARAL, and&nbsp;EMILY\u2019s List.<\/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>Jessica Cisneros, the far-left-backed\u00a0primary opponent to Texas Democrat incumbent Rep.\u00a0Henry Cuellar, led in a hypothetical primary poll in the battleground district and took a more significant lead after signing the\u00a0U.S. &#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-1127181","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\/1127181","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=1127181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127181\/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=1127181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}