DCCC chair: Cuellar, ahead by mere 177 votes, likely won South Texas primary runoff [View all]
WASHINGTON – With Laredo Rep. Henry Cuellar leading by a mere 177 votes after last week’s primary runoff, and challenger Jessica Cisneros – and independent analysts – still unwilling to call the race, the head of the party’s House campaign arm said Tuesday that the nine-term incumbent probably won.
“It appears that Congressman Cuellar has won again, and we want him coming back to Congress, if in fact, he’s our nominee,” Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, told The Dallas Morning News during a briefing with regional reporters.
“It’s my expectation that when the dust settles, he will be the Democratic nominee. And we are going to hold that seat,” he said.
Cuellar declared victory last week, insisting his razor-thin lead would hold.
He’s ahead by just 0.4 percentage points out of 45,211 ballots cast – close, though not as close as his 58-vote win in the 2004 primary, when he ousted incumbent Ciro Rodriguez.
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