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Democrats tap former Houston mayor to replace Sheila Jackson Lee on ballot
Democrats selected former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) to serve as the party’s nominee for the November election to succeed the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas). Turner prevailed in a local party meeting of precinct chairs who chose the candidate who will be the nominee to represent Texas’s 18th Congressional District. Jackson Lee had already won the Democratic nomination for another term in her House seat before she died last month at 74 after battling pancreatic cancer. Turner narrowly won the nomination in a 41-37 runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member who unsuccessfully challenged Jackson Lee in her primary earlier this year.  Turner

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