{"id":103642,"date":"2025-08-29T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103642\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:22:09","slug":"mark-teixeira-for-congress-ex-mlb-star-announces-run-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103642\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Teixeira for Congress? Ex-MLB star announces run in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/75531145007-2153472621.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mookie Betts on Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s greatness: &#8216;It&#8217;s unexplainable&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mookie Betts chats with Mackenzie Salmon about what it&#8217;s like to be teammates with Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Seriously<\/p>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/new-york-yankees\/234\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New York Yankees<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/los-angeles-angels\/227\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a>, Atlanta Braves, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/texas-rangers\/237\" data-autotag=\"7aec7a2f-9b5b-4923-bb2f-57eef6a2f615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Rangers<\/a> first baseman Mark Teixeira made a big announcement Thursday. The three-time MLB All-Star revealed that he plans on running for Congress in Texas&#8217; 21st district.<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira enters the race just a week after the district&#8217;s sitting congressman, Republican Chip Roy, revealed that he would not be seeking re-election. Instead, Roy will <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ballotpedia.org\/2025\/08\/22\/rep-chip-roy-becomes-the-18th-u-s-house-member-to-announce-a-bid-for-another-office-in-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">run for Texas Attorney General<\/a>. Roy had served as the representative for Texas&#8217; 21st district since 2018, winning three separate re-election campaigns since then (2020, 2022, 2024), all by sizable margins.<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira is looking to fill the void left by Roy, despite minimal previous political experience.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big news: I\u2019m ready to go!<\/p>\n<p>As a lifelong conservative who loves this country, I\u2019m running for Congress to fight for the principles that make Texas and America great.<\/p>\n<p>It takes teamwork to win \u2013 I\u2019m ready to help defend President Trump\u2019s America First agenda, Texas families,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bVb6j9qP6i\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bVb6j9qP6i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Teixeira (@teixeiramark25) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teixeiramark25\/status\/1961080787584897174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 28, 2025<\/a>Is Teixeira running as a Republican or Democrat?<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira made it clear that he will be campaigning on conservative policies. In the announcement, Teixeira was detailed as a &#8220;lifelong conservative who loves our country.&#8221; It also said Teixeira&#8217;s decision to run for Congress is an effort to pursue &#8220;his passion for public service and the America First agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira will enter the Republican primary, set for March 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira&#8217;s political history<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira has never worked in the public sector but, according to his announcement, he has &#8220;championed&#8221; many conservative causes since retiring from baseball. He has been a vocal supporter of Texas governor Greg Abbott and has volunteered with the Texas Public Policy Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>When is the election?<\/p>\n<p>The general election is still more than a year away, scheduled for November 3, 2026. The primary will be March 3, 2026, and a primary runoff is set for May 26, 2026. The deadline for filing is December 8, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As of right now, three Democrats, an Independent, and zero Republicans (excluding Teixeira) have already registered with a federal or state campaign finance agency and already appear on candidate lists released by government election agencies:<\/p>\n<p>Gary Taylor (D)Regina Vanburg (D)Daniel Weber (D)Dan McQueen (Independent)Mark Teixeira stats14-year career1,862 regular-season games409 career home runsFive Gold Glove awardsThree-time All-Star<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mookie Betts on Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s greatness: &#8216;It&#8217;s unexplainable&#8217; Mookie Betts chats with Mackenzie Salmon about what it&#8217;s like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[74842,2872,17598,64,63,4034,28133,74843,74846,9338,19830,19386,6485,3786,74841,37741,46313,74847,2871,5262,611,74844,591,621,637,36227,3127,2704,7811,323,54447,19828,84,3919,5637,19831,85,74840,3370,2367,1785,74845,441,6114,3918],"class_list":["post-103642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-abbott","tag-angeles","tag-angels","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-branch","tag-campaigns","tag-campaigns-u0026-elections","tag-congress","tag-democratic","tag-democratic-party","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-greg","tag-greg-abbott","tag-legislative","tag-legislative-branch","tag-los","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mark","tag-mark-teixeira","tag-mlb","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-negative","tag-new","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-now","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-party","tag-politics","tag-rangers","tag-republican","tag-republican-party","tag-sports","tag-teixeira","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-congress","tag-u0026","tag-yankees","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}