SAN ANTONIO and LAREDO, Texas—When Jessica Cisneros was 13, her aunt was diagnosed with stomach cancer. “I remember seeing [my uncle] and his family go through this difficult period in their lives where they just could not afford the treatment my aunt needed,” she recalled as she drove from San Antonio to the border city of Laredo, two days before Tuesday’s Democratic primary. Before the age of GoFundMe, Cisneros and other family members sold food at the side of the road and held lotería fundraisers to help raise money for her aunt’s care, but when she died, they still struggled to pay for the cost of her funeral. “We did everything we could so that my aunt could get what she needed, but at the end of the day, it wasn’t enough,” Cisneros said.
, “No congressional Democrat has received more financial backing from private prisons”)—and it seems obvious that Cuellar is a relic of a Democratic Party that no longer exists.
For all that Cisneros’s campaign has been framed as some sort of bellwether for the Democratic Party, sheFor her part, Cisneros is banking on her belief that the voters in the solidly Democratic district, which backed Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a wide margin in 2018, are not as conservative as Cuellar believes.
Cisneros had once interned for Cuellar in 2014, where she observed that he seemed disinterested in actually speaking with the people he represented. “I think the most important thing you have to have is to have the best interests of your constituents in mind, and I didn’t see that from the congressman,” she told me. “I noticed the congressman wasn’t taking meetings with people who looked like me and my parents.
Shortly before the two had set out, Cisneros, accompanied by NARAL Pro-Choice’s Ilyse Hogue, had spoken to the dozen or so people gathered at Cisneros’s campaign office in San Antonio. Hogue, whose group has endorsed Cisneros, brought up Cuellar’s anti-abortion record and noted that a former employee hadagainst him. “Texas has been ground zero for the attempt to use our own ability to reproduce as a weapon against us,” Hogue said.
“Our logic is, even if it’s straight blue and some guy’s corrupt, he’s probably going to at least be corrupt for the Democrats,” Camacho replied, referring to the thinking of him and his wife.Camacho remained unconvinced. “I understand you want me to vote, but sometimes the stars don’t align for that,” he said wearily.
Avis appreciated that Cisneros, in stark contrast to Cuellar, had spent so much time holding town halls in the district and speaking directly with voters. “I think in the entire 15 years, he’s never come down to ask, what are the issues that keep you up at night?” she said. She added, “It’s time for something new.”
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