“With slightly below 0.6 p.c of the vote symbolizing such stark variations for the long run in South Texas, I owe it to our group to look this via to the top,” Cisneros mentioned in a remark Monday.
In step with the most recent CNN knowledge, Cuellar lately has 22,788 votes to Cisneros’ 22,591 with an estimated 99% of the depend finished.
Cuellar, in a remark, mentioned he welcomed a procedure that will “best additional check our victory.”
“My opponent has each prison proper to name for a recount regardless that she has up to now said that she ‘may not forestall combating till each vote has been counted.’ Neatly, each vote has been counted. She has no trail to victory,” he mentioned.
The nominating contest in South Texas’s twenty eighth Congressional District, which levels from portions of San Antonio all the way down to Laredo and different border communities, has been a few of the maximum sharply fought and aggressive of an election season already roiled via Democratic intra-party clashes. Cisneros, a innovative subsidized via motion leaders like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, additionally ran in opposition to Cuellar in 2020. She misplaced then via about 3.6% in a one-on-one race.
Cisneros narrowed the margin in a three-way race on March 1, coming inside of about 950 votes and denying Cuellar, who ended up with 48.6% to her 46.7%, the 50% majority required to clinch the nomination outright.
Their runoff attracted every other spherical of nationwide consideration and tens of millions in outdoor spending, the lion’s percentage of it from reasonable and pro-Israel teams supporting Cuellar, the lone anti-abortion Democrat last within the Area. Cuellar additionally had the backing of social gathering leaders in Washington, together with Area Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Chief Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip James Clyburn.
EMILY’s Listing, which made a overdue paid push, along side Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren recommended Cisneros, who was once recruited to run via the innovative crew Justice Democrats.
