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After nearly a year without a representative, voters in Houston\u2019s 18th Congressional district will vote in a runoff between two young Democrats, Christian Menefee, the former county attorney, and Amanda Edwards, a former city council member. The winner will immediately face a tough reelection fight in the March primary against another incumbent Democrat, Representative Al Green, who was drawn into the 18th because of last year\u2019s redistricting by Texas Republicans. See polls about this race \u203a<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIVE Last updated 4:22 p.m. E.T. After nearly a year without a representative, voters in Houston\u2019s 18th Congressional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,22556,22954,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-145754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-elections","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-state-legislature","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}