Jessica Cisneros is not your typical South Texas politician. In a region where Democrats range from reticent to proudly pro-life on the question of abortion, the immigration attorney and second-time congressional candidate is unabashedly pro-choice. Where organized labor is weak and politics often captured by parochial business barons, she’s a union ally. Where elected Dems are Biden-style moderates or borderline Republicans, Cisneros has championed Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. Her adversaries think she’s unqualified and out-of-touch.
She thinks her time has come.
“At the very beginning, a lot of folks were very skeptical about what we were doing and the fact that I was a 26-year-old, first-time candidate [opposing] an establishment Democrat who has been in office longer than I’ve been alive,” Cisneros said. “I am just incredibly proud and so ready to finish what we started.”
