Christian Menefee, a freshman Democratic US representative, beat veteran congressman Al Green on Tuesday in a fierce runoff that was the product of Republican gerrymandering.<\/p>\n
Last year, the Republican-dominated Texas legislature unveiled a congressional map designed to flip seats in the GOP\u2019s favor. Donald Trump<\/a> had urged the state\u2019s lawmakers to safeguard the party\u2019s congressional majority.<\/p>\n Under the new map, Green, a congressional fixture for over two decades and a staunch Trump critic, saw his reliably Democratic ninth district effectively eliminated<\/a>. He announced a bid for the 18th district in November.<\/p>\n Menefee was sworn into the seat in January, after winning a special election to replace the late US representative Sylvester Turner.<\/p>\n On the campaign trail, Green sought to link Menefee with big-money politics, accusing his challenger of being aligned with \u201cTrump crypto cronies\u201d, Houston Public Media reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Green\u2019s protests of the Trump administration<\/a> have garnered national attention in recent years.<\/p>\n In February, he was ejected from the president\u2019s State of the Union address after holding a sign that read \u201cBlack people aren\u2019t apes!\u201d It was a counter to Trump sharing a racist AI-generated video<\/a> where Barack and Michelle Obama were depicted as the simians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Menefee, a freshman Democratic US representative, beat veteran congressman Al Green on Tuesday in a fierce runoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-310068","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\/310068","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=310068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}