(Eric Gay/AP)MJ Hegar, a Democratic military veteran who fell short last year in a high-profile bid to unseat a Republican congressman in a conservative Texas district, announced Tuesday that she will try to topple the state’s senior senator, John Cornyn (R), next year. “Unseating an entrenched incumbent senator is going to be tough, but I’ve faced worse odds in my life,” Hegar wrote on Twitter. I’m in.”Unseating an entrenched incumbent senator is going to be tough, but I’ve faced worse odds in my life. “For those of you who don’t know Sen. John Cornyn, he’s that tall guy lurching behind Mitch McConnell in basically every single video,” Hegar said. He easily prevailed in his last bid for reelection in 2014 with more than 61 percent of the vote.

Source: Washington Post April 23, 2019 14:48 UTC