{"id":310853,"date":"2026-05-27T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310853\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:12:10","slug":"johnny-garcia-wins-the-democratic-primary-for-texas-35th-u-s-house-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310853\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Garcia wins the Democratic primary for Texas&#8217; 35th U.S. House District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Democrats stepped in to help Johnny Garcia win House nomination as the party was seeking to defeat his rival, Maureen Galindo, who has repeatedly expressed antisemitic views.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/live-results-texas-midterm-primary-runoffs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LIVE RESULTS: Texas midterm primary runoffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York called her comments &#8220;disgusting&#8221; and said it shouldn&#8217;t be near &#8220;our politics.&#8221; Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Suzan DelBene also weighed in.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans redrew the 35th District to help the GOP win more House seats, but Democrats think they may have a chance to flip it. They worried that if Galindo won, her past comments would hurt the party.<\/p>\n<p>\n                    A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"invite_body\">\n                    Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/give.newshour.org\/page\/88646\/donate\/1?ea.tracking.id=pbs_news_sept_2025_article&amp;supporter.appealCode=N2509AW1000100\" class=\"donation-link ga-click-funding ga-click-ender-funding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    Donate now<\/p>\n<p>                <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Democrats stepped in to help Johnny Garcia win House nomination as the party was seeking to defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-310853","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\/310853","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=310853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}