{"id":23107,"date":"2025-10-27T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/23107\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:08:07","slug":"austin-democrat-sarah-eckhardt-announces-bid-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/23107\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Democrat Sarah Eckhardt announces bid for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic state Sen. Sarah Eckhardt announced she is running to represent Texas&#8217; recently re-drawn 10th congressional district. Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, who has represented the district in Washington since 2005, announced last month that he will not seek re-election in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Eckhardt, who made her announcement Monday, has spent the last five years representing Travis County as a state senator. Before that, she served as Travis County Judge and Travis County Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic state Sen. Sarah Eckhardt announced she is running to represent Texas&#8217; recently re-drawn 10th congressional district. Republican&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2671,3480,16702,2830,16703,16704,16705,16706,12902],"class_list":{"0":"post-23107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-congress","12":"tag-gerrymandering","13":"tag-michael-mccaul","14":"tag-redistricting","15":"tag-sarah-eckhardt","16":"tag-texas-congressional-district-10","17":"tag-texas-congressional-districts","18":"tag-texas-congressional-representatives","19":"tag-texas-redistricting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107","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=23107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}