This article was first published on September 8, 2025 by Texas Tribune, a non -prominent profitable media organization that teaches Texas – and participates with them – about public policy, policy, government and state issues.
Washington, DC (Texas Tribune– When Republicans revealed a new map of Congress, the number of democratic areas in Texas, the democratic actor. Lloyd Dujett It was quickly to announce that he would run in a single -based Wahid area.
Dujet, a huge occupy with three decades in Congress, was cultivating science in the hope that his counterpart will be in Austin. Greg Kassar He will remain in his current area despite his new borders for the benefit of the Republicans. But the movement of Doggit has begun unexpectedly a strong alliance that works publicly and especially to support the younger Congress.
Three weeks after Doggett dug on the promise to run again, changed his opinion, he chose to retire at the end of his term and support Casar’s nomination – a step that survived the Democrats in the expensive preliminary elections.
Dujet, 78, is still believed to have been hitting Cassar in his head, standing next to his position that his colleague should have been running in the newly tragedy Congress 35, a Hasbanic majority area in San Antonio and external provinces that carry the same number as the current Cassar region with its components. But he realized in August that the race between the two would have been harmful.
“Even if he wins,” he will leave “will leave a society that is divided.
Dujet’s decision to abandon the preliminary elections of many Democrats throughout Texas caused the breathing of the collective a sigh of relief, pointing to Kasar’s increasing strength in Austin and Congress.
Kasar, a member of Congress, remained in the second period, publicly over the battle where Dujet suggested that he run in the new San Antonio seat. But behind the scenes, he was making moves to unify support.
Before Doggett announced his decision to step down, CASAR had lined up approvals from a handful of members of the Austin City Council, according to a source familiar with his unauthorized campaign to speak publicly. The source said that in Washington, where Casar’s chairs and Dughit deputy head the progressive gathering of Congress, he was planning to announce support from members of Democrats from an ideological ideological sector for the party.
It was a series of democratic groups, including Bold Pac, Citizens United and Way to win, plan to raise funds on behalf of Casar. Jin Fonda is committed to hosting a fundraising campaign for Kasar. His campaign brought national democratic polls and recruited Maurice Katz, the nominee of New York, Zahran Mamdani, to the media, to produce the CASAR launch video.
Tori Gavito, head of the progressive donor network for winning, said that she regretted the selection, but her organization was ready to support Kasar through independent spending efforts, and she was initially achieved.
“People were definitely lining up [for Casar]And it really pulled different types of Democratic Alliance, from those who are ready to support the next general[eration]For those who are more than the operational class, people from the colored electoral constituency groups, “adding that some Democrats believed that Dogitt’s suggestion that Cassar was running in the new Saint Antonio seat, who would have voted for President Donald Trump with 10 points, was wrong.
“In fact, there were a few of us who were slightly insulted from this idea that Austin is not a place for Latin children as well. We have to go to San Antonio,” she said.
The Public Opinion Court also affected. In the morning, Dujett, a group of influential Democrats in Austin-including the former Senator, the ruling candidate Windy Davis and former Vice Deputy State of Texas Glen Masei-withdrew Austin Cronic This indicated that Dujet will be in his eighty years at the time of his next re -election and encouraged him to run in a different area or retirement.
I noticed the introduction that Doggett was Democratic election for the first time At the time of the then Joe Biden to bend from the presidential race in the wake of his disastrous debate.
Dujet said that he does not agree to the article-and that local efforts to put him from running were “weak at best”-but he took the heart in the way that the Democrats had already been against each other.
“I believed that the opinion article had no meaning at all.” Dujet said. “But it sparked a lot of discussion on the Internet and again, which made it clear what kind of battle that will win this.”
Dujet’s decision to step down aside to prevent others from aligned publicly. Michelle Goldberg, the writer of the liberal column in the New York Times, was working on an opinion article calling Dugate to retire before he finally announced that he would do so, according to the two of the column knowledge. Goldberg had previously called, then President Joe Biden, to abandon the candidacy for his re -election early July 2022.
New York Times Charlie Stadander said the paper is not attached to the press that may or not being ongoing.
For his part, Dujet said that he is afraid that age will be one of the factors in the comments he obtained.
He said: “Just as we need to encourage the leaders of the new generation, we need leaders from all generations and they must evaluate each of them on performance, and not allegations that one is very small or very old.” “Age, unlike sexual and racist discrimination, deprives us of a full set of talents available to overcome Trump’s march to tyranny and build a country with a greater respect and opportunity for everyone.”
While the heads of the records were eventually resolved, some Democrats in Texas felt uncomfortable because Dujett had begun to discuss the preliminary elections before passing the maps.
In the days before the detection of the map, the democratic delegation in Texas in Congress publicly called for unity. Dujet himself said at a press conference in July that he will not ask the legislators in Texas to protect his seat, “nor a member of this delegation should be.”
But when he started interviewing with what he intended to run in Congress 37, some Democrats are wrongly rubbed.
Play the situation between Doggett and Casar directly with a victim similar to the map map in northern Texas. The Republicans have reformulated the seats of the Dallas area to leave only two democratic seats, as there were three. The seat of MP Yasmine Crochet was changed in downtown Dallas around the margins, while Jolly Johnson, MP, Representative Mark Fennie, Jolie Johnson, saw their provinces completely dismantled and integrated, with pieces of Crochet, in one deep blue seat in Dallas County.
However, Johnson or Fadi publicly committed to run for a seat or another, and Johnson has made it clear that it is won’t Fedi basic.
Feni said that the nature of their behavior is intended.
“I was trying to make the entire delegation like that [while] He said: “This does not want to feed on their game by responding to what they are doing. I also understand that no one wants to be the last person to sow knowledge. I think it is an accurate balance.”
In an interview, Johnson said she was happy to see Cassar and Doggett avoiding the preliminary elections, and that she and Veasey are committed to herself.
“I have all expectations that we will get everything,” Johnson said. “Mark and I respect each other. We are Hamimoun’s friends, and I think we are very much.”
Mobility aside means that Dujet will largely avoid dangerous introductory elections over his 30 -year -old Congress.
During many efforts to re -divide the circles, Doggett has always been able to survive, although the shape of his area is changing to integrate Mcallen and San Antonio at different points, forcing him to reach the road and practice his massive style of retail policies in places that were not related to.
In 2011, after a round of division of circles, Doggett found himself in an unofficial confrontation with the deputy at the time, Joaquin Castro, D-SAN ANTONIO, in an area that was deported to an extension of the San Antonio neighborhoods to the southern part of Travis Province. As now, Dujet, which is white, I faced a possibility From running against a younger Latin democracy in a very Spanish region where the grass is likely to be tilted towards Castro.
Doggett is committed to fighting for his seat and was flowing with money, with nearly $ 3 million in his campaign in the summer of 2011. But both men were rescued by the retirement of US MP Charlie Gonzalez, de San Antonio, in the neighboring twentieth region, where Castro chose to run instead.
But this time, with the lack of democrats in Texas in the center of Texas, near the retirement and the challenge coming from the Ostnet instead of San Antonian, Dujtit was, although he had a financial advantage of $ 6.2 million to about $ 450,000, which ended up wiping the road to a smaller politician.
“I have always said that I was not planning to stay here forever,” Dujet said, adding that he is only planning one or two other periods. “So it does not seem like a good use of my resources, and that I can spend my time, and those who will be on the other side can do the same, in an attempt to elect a democratic house and fight Trump.”
The dean of the Texas delegation, Dujett spent contracts as one of the most progressive Texas delegation members, focusing on eliminating tax evasion and defending social security and the law of care at reasonable prices.
Castro, for his part, appeared at the launch event of Kasar to build his colleague. But he expressed regret for a decision at all.
Castro said in an interview. Therefore, I respected his decision not to run again. He has become clear to Greg. But really, [he] It should not have been placed in this position. “