This year, she faces Zach Herbert<\/a>, a personal injury lawyer who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary in March.<\/p>\n The race takes place amid another challenging election cycle for Republicans. State Rep. James Talarico (D-Austin) is running against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate, and some pollsters put Talarico in the lead<\/a>. Like O\u2019Rourke in 2018, Talarico could pull more fellow Democrats into the Texas Legislature on his coattails, even if he loses.<\/p>\n In addition, the House Democratic Campaign Committee has HD 112 firmly in its crosshairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s each candidate\u2019s background and platform.<\/p>\n Button<\/p>\n Button won<\/a> by an even slimmer margin of victory in 2020, defeating her Democratic opponent by about 200 votes<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n She enjoyed a more comfortable lead in 2022, finishing<\/a> with about 55 percent of the vote, and she netted 54 percent of the vote in her last election<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n Button\u2019s list of priorities on her campaign website starts with \u201cstanding with public schools.\u201d<\/p>\n Education has been a recurrent issue in Button\u2019s races. After she voted<\/a> to keep education savings accounts (ESAs) in the Texas House\u2019s education omnibus bill in 2023, her 2024 challenger, Averie Bishop, made opposition to ESAs a key plank in her platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n Button also says she prioritizes women\u2019s health care, lowering the cost of groceries and medicine, protecting children online, and \u201csafeguarding Texas against dangerous AI.\u201d<\/p>\n She\u2019s endorsed by the Associated Republicans of Texas<\/a>, Americans for Prosperity<\/a>, and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick<\/a>, who specifically named her support for school choice in the 2025 session<\/a> as the reason for his endorsement.<\/p>\n Herbert<\/p>\n Herbert is endorsed by the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas, VoteVets, Texas AFL-CIO, Moms Demand Action, the American Federation of Teachers, Planned Parenthood Texas Votes PAC, and the Texas State Teachers Association.<\/p>\n The top issues Herbert names on his website are education, workers\u2019 rights, economic opportunity, and health care access.<\/p>\n Herbert staunchly opposes ESAs. On his site, he criticizes the 2025 bill that established them, House Bill 2, for \u201cset[ting] aside up to $1 billion for vouchers that send public dollars to private schools with little accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n Herbert also supports raising the minimum wage and says he will \u201cpush for reforms that provide honest, lasting relief\u201d from the property tax burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the few Republicans still representing blue Dallas County faces a new challenger this year. State Rep.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[149229,581,27,29,28,149230],"class_list":["post-465958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-angie-chen-button","tag-dallas-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-zach-herbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465958","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=465958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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