Rallying with Cuellar in San Antonio Wednesday, House Majority Whip James Clyburn — the...
Jessican Cisneros takes questions from the media during a press conference at her campaign headquarters in Laredo, Texas, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. She is in a runoff with incumbent Henry Cuellar in the Texas Democratic Congressional District 28 race. The runoff will be in May.House Democratic leaders, facing pressure from abortion rights advocates to drop their support for U.S. Rep.
Rallying with Cuellar in San Antonio Wednesday, House Majority Whip James Clyburn — the No. 3 House Democrat and one of the party’s most influential figures — reaffirmed his support for Cuellar, days after a leaked draft opinion signaled the U.S. Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
Clyburn, addressing a crowd of several dozen people at an outdoor restaurant near downtown San Antonio, acknowledged he disagrees with Cuellar on certain issues but pointed to the Laredo Democrat’s key role — as one of his chief deputy whips — in wrangling votes to pass numerous key issues. Clyburn told reporters after the rally that Democrats are a “big-tent party” with room for a member like Cuellar who opposes abortion.
“I don’t believe we ought to have a litmus test in the Democratic Party,” Clyburn said. “This whole notion that you’ve got to agree with everybody on everything is pretty sophomoric to me.”, sparked calls for Clyburn and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pull their endorsements for Cuellar, who was the only House Democrat to oppose a bill last year that would have codified the right to an abortion.
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