Former Harris County Attorney Democrat Christian Menefee will win the special election runoff in Texas’ 18th Congressional District, according to a projection from CNN’s Decision Desk, ending a long vacancy and narrowing Speaker Mike Johnson’s razor-thin majority in the US House.
Texas’ 18th Congressional District has been empty since March following former Rep. Sylvester Turner’s death — and 13 of the last 18 months in total.
The current partisan breakdown in the chamber is 218 Republicans to 213 Democrats, following the resignation of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and the death of Rep. Doug LaMalfa. Johnson will be able to lose only one Republican on any party-line vote once Menefee is sworn in.
The fed doesn’t run the elections, and republicans also are up for reelection and need the election to happen.
Even Russia has “elections”. The difference is in how rigged they are. We will have midterms, but they might be rigged by the GOP.