{"id":23277,"date":"2026-05-27T00:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rep-christian-menefee-defeats-fellow-rep-al-green-in-texas-house-runoff\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:47:51","slug":"rep-christian-menefee-defeats-fellow-rep-al-green-in-texas-house-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rep-christian-menefee-defeats-fellow-rep-al-green-in-texas-house-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Christian Menefee defeats fellow Rep. Al Green in Texas House runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Texas Democratic Rep. Christian Menefee defeated longtime Rep. Al Green in a runoff that was defined by heavy outside spending and clashes over generational change.<\/p>\n

The Tuesday result will likely end the long career of Green, a 78-year-old civil rights champion who was running for a 12th term in Washington. He entered the race in the newly drawn Houston-area 18th District after his own district was carved up in redistricting.<\/p>\n

Menefee, a 38-year-old Harris County attorney and fellow member of the Congressional Black Caucus, was sworn into Congress earlier this year after winning a special election in January<\/a> to serve out the remainder of the late Rep. Sylvester Turner\u2019s term. He is expected to cruise to victory in November in the safely Democratic Houston district.<\/p>\n

The race was also the latest sign of the power of the crypto lobby\u2019s influence. A cryptocurrency super PAC poured $4 million into the race to back Menefee, turning the incumbent-on-incumbent showdown into the most expensive House runoff in Texas<\/a> this cycle.<\/p>\n

In the end, Green, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, couldn\u2019t overcome the cash disadvantage despite his name recognition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas Democratic Rep. Christian Menefee defeated longtime Rep. Al Green in a runoff that was defined by heavy outside spending and clashes over generational change. The Tuesday result will likely end the long career of Green, a 78-year-old civil rights champion who was running for a 12th term in Washington. He entered the race in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}