{"id":89342,"date":"2025-12-16T01:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/89342\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:25:08","slug":"u-s-rep-marc-veasey-wont-run-for-tarrant-county-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/89342\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey won\u2019t run for Tarrant County judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey will not run for Tarrant County judge in 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n

Veasey, D-Fort Worth, will instead serve out the remainder of his congressional term, which ends in January 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter careful and deliberate consideration, I have decided to withdraw my candidacy for Tarrant County Judge,\u201d Veasey wrote in a statement.\u201c<\/p>\n

Veasey said the decision to withdraw from the race was tough. He said he decided over the weekend that his best move was to stay in Congress and \u201chold Donald Trump accountable.\u201d He was faced with a contested primary against Tarrant County Commissioner Alisa Simmons, his ally, and businessman Millennium Woods Jr. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI have been I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to be around dozens, hundreds of fine elected officials,\u201d said Democratic strategist Matt Angle, who has worked with Veasey for decades. \u201cNone of them are finer than Marc Veasey. Marc is just a good person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats–particularly in Tarrant County–had hoped Veasey would help them flip what\u2019s described as the nation\u2019s largest red county by beating Republican incumbent Tarrant County Judge Tim O\u2019Hare.<\/p>\n

But after a weekend of mulling over the potential campaign, Veasey decided a county judge campaign wasn\u2019t in his best interest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will remain laser-focused on serving the people of North Texas and using every remaining day of my term to meet this moment,\u201d Veasey wrote.<\/p>\n

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Veasey predicted he would have defeated O\u2019Hare.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not doubt that I could wage a strong campaign here. But, knowing you can win an election does not mean you should run a campaign,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, speaks with media outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Facility on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, in Dallas.<\/p>\n

Christine Vo \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n

Veasey made the decision to run for Tarrant County judge last week, after opting not to run for the District 30 congressional race that features Dallas mega-church pastor Frederick Haynes III.<\/p>\n

The Fort Worth Democrat has represented District 33 since 2013. The Republican-controlled Legislature redrew that district this summer. It was moved entirely outside of Tarrant County, which is Veasey\u2019s political base.<\/p>\n

Former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred and U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson are vying in the Democratic primary to replace Veasey in District 33, which is now anchored in Dallas County.<\/p>\n

Veasey is a former state representative. He got into politics by working in constituent services and campaign voter turnout for former U.S. Rep. Martin Frost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey will not run for Tarrant County judge in 2026. Veasey, D-Fort Worth, will instead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2671,145,409,116,118,117,15926,287,122,10806],"class_list":["post-89342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-marc-veasey","tag-politics","tag-tarrant-county","tag-u-s-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89342","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=89342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}