Former Congressman Pete Sessions stood behind a lectern at the McLennan County Republican Party headquarters in Waco, flanked by a man holding a campaign sign and a cardboard cutout of Donald Trump, and made it official: He was re-running for Congress, this time in Texas’ 17th Congressional District, some 80 miles south of his old seat in Dallas.
“I believe that we are at a time when if you’re going to come and be on the ballot, you need to do so with vigor and responsibility and stand up for the things that continue to make America great again,” Sessions told a small crowd of local Republicans on Thursday as they snacked on cookies and soda.
The veteran Republican politician may have lost his seat in the 32nd Congressional District and his influential position as chair of the House rules committee (and the perks that come with it) when he was wiped out of office in 2018, but he never lost his taste for power.
