El Paso Times - First-term U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego, D-Alpine, knows he will have a tough re-election campaign ahead of him, just because of the very nature of his district.
Gallego doesn't have a Democratic challenger, but there are three Republicans Francisco "Quico" Canseco, Will Hurd and Robert Lowry -- already in the race to try to unseat him.
His district is the only competitive congressional district in Texas out of 36, he said, citing two examples.
In the past 10 election cycles, this district has elected five different people to Congress, Gallego said. It's such a swing district that Texas' junior U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican, carried the district by 6 points in 2012, while Gallego won it by 5 points, the congressman noted."
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