In early returns in the 18th Congressional District race, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was leading against former City Council member Amanda Edwards with 59.94 percent of the vote to Edward's 37.38 percent. The third Democratic candidate in the contest, Robert Slater, a Houston chef and businessman, suspended his campaign last week...
U.S. Rep Sheila Jackson Lee was counting on her long years of service to support her re-election bid.With all of the Election Day vote centers reporting in her race for re-election to her 18th Congressional District seat U.S U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has won the Democratic primary against former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards with 59.94 percent of the vote to Edward's 37.38 percent.
The incumbent congresswoman has secured disaster relief for Houston residents after Hurricane Harvey in 2017, worked to establish Juneteenth as a national holiday and endorsed the Violence Against Women’s Act. She has also brought federal grants to the district for Texas Southern University and the University of Houston. More recently, she locked down a $20.5 million grant for Harris County Public Health Department’s Uplift Harris — a guaranteed income pilot project.
He added that the congresswoman needed to maintain her core base of supporters, and Edwards needed to be unable to mobilize new or less frequent voters for Jackson to have a reasonable prospect of victory. “One of the things that sometimes we forget about is that these seats, although held by individuals, don't belong to individuals. They belong to the people,” Edwards said. “I think this time when people have felt very rejected and shut out from Washington — I hear quite a bit how people are over the status quo.”
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