{"id":271376,"date":"2026-04-29T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271376\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:48:06","slug":"opinion-tejano-singer-battles-gop-incumbent-to-flip-house-seat-in-south-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271376\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Tejano singer battles GOP incumbent to flip House seat in South Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"IQLZ5WN4DRHYXEERZIBXWZRTW4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Joe Holley is based in Austin and writes about Texas politics. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"EPQP2NMZPZHD3L6BRVKQSRWR5M\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">It\u2019s been a long time since South Texas politics has produced such an unusual and high-stakes congressional race as this year\u2019s battle between a two-term Republican incumbent and her Democratic opponent, a charismatic political neophyte who\u2019s accustomed to being in the public eye. In fact, you might have to go back nearly 80 years to find the campaign equivalent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Holley is based in Austin and writes about Texas politics. It\u2019s been a long time since South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-271376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271376","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=271376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}