John Lujan

Isaiah, you wrote a couple of pieces this week about, uh, State House races.

So tell us what's going on in the race to replace State Representative John Lujan.

It's interesting because, uh, even like before and after redistricting, the district just has a bit of a wobbly partisan history.

And so, uh, we-- Some listeners might remember redistricting that took place last year, that was for Congress.

In other news, in a race for a flip-prone Texas House seat, a former think tank advisor and a Democratic campaign alumna are now running for their own turn in office.

Republican Jorge Borrego and Democrat Christian Carranza are squaring off to replace outgoing State Representative John Lujan in the Texas House this November.

Previous election data suggests that House District 118, which wraps around the southern and northeastern edges of San Antonio, is a toss-up.

The median percentage of Republican votes relative to Democratic votes in the past two statewide elections averages R fifty-one percent.

But the

elephant in the room is that everybody assumed that the president was going to support John Lujan, who was very well known, liked, you know, seen as more moderate Republican, who for, you know, no one understands Trump's mind.

But he ended up supporting his

opponent.

So that takes pieces of Bexar County, and if, if people are familiar with House District 118, that's about the most competitive state house district, um, in the state.

That's John Lujan's seat.

Um, Trump won it by, I wanna say four.

They basically took that part of Bexar County and tacked it onto some super red counties to the east, um, Wilson County, Guadalupe County, and Karnes County.