Longtime Democratic Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett announced Aug. 21 that he will not seek reelection in the state’s redrawn 37th congressional district following the GOP’s mid-decade redistricting push.

Doggett , 78, had said in a statement that he will not seek reelection after serving three decades in Congress if courts uphold Texas’ new Republican-favoring congressional map . Doggett’s announcement comes after he insisted for weeks that he intended to run in the redrawn 37th congressional district despite potentially facing a primary challenger in fellow Democratic Texas Rep. Greg Casar .

“I think in the last two weeks Lloyd Doggett thought that some of the folks who would be with him money, marbles, and chalk … were, in fact, with Greg, and that gave him great pause as

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