“The biggest thing holding us back from pursuing the change we deserve is their fear.
“With this close of a margin, it’s clear that without their aggressive interference in the lives of South Texas families, we would have won,” Cisneros said. Supreme Court signaled it might overturn Roe v. They endorsed her again in the rematch along with abortion-rights groups that swooped into the race as the U.S. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. This time Cisneros got even closer than in 2020, when she lost by 4 percentage points behind national support from the party's progressive leaders, including Sens. It is the second time that Cisneros, a 29-year-old immigration attorney who once interned for Cuellar, has lost a challenge to her former boss, whose moderate record along Texas' heavily Hispanic southern border has aligned him at times with Republicans on issues including abortion and guns.
