{"id":57946,"date":"2025-11-20T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/57946\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:00:10","slug":"abraham-enriquez-announces-campaign-for-congress-in-texas-19th-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/57946\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Enriquez announces campaign for Congress in Texas\u2019 19th District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Native West Texan and Republican Abraham Enriquez officially announced his campaign for Congress in Texas\u2019 19th District. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Earlier this month, current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/11\/11\/lubbock-congressman-jodey-arrington-not-seeking-re-election-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/11\/11\/lubbock-congressman-jodey-arrington-not-seeking-re-election-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\">Congressman Jodey Arrington said he will not seek re-election in 2026<\/a>. Arrington was elected to congress in 2016 and has served for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/about\/people\/abraham-enriquez\/&amp;\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/about\/people\/abraham-enriquez\/&amp;\/\">Enriquez is the founder of Bienvenido<\/a>, an organization dedicated to advancing policies that empower the Hispanic community throughout the Trump Administration. His efforts earned him the Republican National Committee\u2019s Rising Star Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m running for Congress because West Texas needs a warrior who won\u2019t flinch,\u201d Abraham said. \u201cPresident Trump is rebuilding America, and I\u2019ll stand with him to do it again. The radical left has declared war on our values, our energy jobs, our borders, and our freedoms. West Texans know exactly what\u2019s at stake, and so do I.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Abraham graduated in 2018 from Abilene Christian University with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science with double minors in International Business and Spanish with a concentration in Pre-Law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Native West Texan and Republican Abraham Enriquez officially announced his campaign for Congress in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31275,2671,10741,4825,319,251,1063,168,27,29,28,292,375],"class_list":["post-57946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-abraham-enriquez","tag-congress","tag-house","tag-jodey-arrington","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-local-politics","tag-lubbock","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-politics","tag-west-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57946","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=57946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}