Democrat Wendy Davis of Texas running for Congress in 2020
Texas Democrat Wendy Davis announced Monday that she will run for Congress in 2020, five years after badly losing a run for governor that was propelled by her 13-hour filibuster of an anti-abortion bill in the state Capitol.
Davis will challenge freshman Republican Rep. Chip Roy, who made headlines in May for single-handedly blocking $19 billion in disaster aid over protests that it didn’t include money to address the migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. The spending bill ultimately passed, but not before Roy’s delay frustrated lawmakers on both sides.
He was narrowly elected to Congress last year and now has a high-profile opponent in Davis, whose popularity among Democrats has endured after she lost the Texas governor’s race by 20 points in 2014 to Republican Greg Abbott. Since that defeat, the GOP’s dominance in Texas has weakened, and Davis’ return to the ballot is the latest sign of renewed Democratic optimism in the Lone Star State.
Davis, 56, has spent the last few years running an Austin-based nonprofit focused on gender equality called Deeds Not Words. She remains a headlining draw for Democrats and will likely remain a fundraising powerhouse just as she was in 2014, when her gubernatorial campaign attracted donors from across the U.S. and raised nearly $40 million.
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