More than 200 Texas Democrats will vote to select a new nominee for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he will not seek reelection this year, setting up a contested primary where Texas Democrats will vote for a replacement nominee for the first time in decades.
Biden is the first president to withdraw since Lyndon Baines Johnson, who represented Texas for two decades in Congress, announced he would pull out of the 1968 election. President Johnson surprised the nation with his statement at the end of a speech one Sunday evening in March, just days before the Wisconsin primary.
The party will now likely select their next nominee at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month. It will be the first contested convention since 1968, also held in Chicago, and 273 Texas delegates will vote for their pick. Passion Jackson, a delegate from Dallas, said the news came as a complete surprise and that she felt "really sad" for Biden. Harris is "the best person we can put forward," Jackson said, but she was also worried about Harris facing misogyny during the election.Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Austin was the first Democrat in Congress to ask Biden to withdraw from the race.
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