Debby makes landfall along the Big Bend of Florida early Monday morning. From there, it will turn northeast and may emerge in the Atlantic just off the Georgia and South Carolina coast late Tuesday into Wednesday. It is also possible Debby could stall out along the Carolina coast, which could lead to a risk for major flooding. From Thursday and beyond, there is quite a bit of model disagreement with Debby’s track.
We are also monitoring a tropical wave approaching the Windward Islands that has a 30% chance of forming once it makes it’s way into the southern Caribbean later this week.
August 4 10 p.m.
Debby continues to rapidly strengthen tonight, now a hurricane with sustained winds of 75 mph and gusts up to 90 mph. Debby is closing in Florida and will make landfall along Florida’s Big Bend region Monday morning as a category one hurricane. A life-threatening storm surge is expected there along the coast as well as hurricane force winds. The surge could reach up to 10 feet in spots. Then the storm will slowly track across northern Florida, southern Georgia and into South Carolina, bringing tropical storm force winds and flooding rains. The amount of rain that could fall over the course of several days in this region could lead to “significant and catastrophic flash flooding.”
Elsewhere, a tropical wave currently east of the Windward Islands has 30% chance of forming once it makes it’s way into the southern Caribbean this week. This is a typical track storms can make in the month of August and it will have some favorable conditions for development, so we’ll be keeping a close eye on this wave throughout the week.
And in the Pacific, it’s much more active with Tropical Storms Carlotta, Daniel, Potential Storm Five and another wave that will likely become a storm this week.
August 4 8 a.m.
Tropical Storm Debby remains on track to make landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region on Monday, likely strengthening to a hurricane ahead of landfall. Debby is then expected to cross over Florida and slow it’s foreword movement off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. Flooding rains of over a foot are possible for parts of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
While Debby will no impact us here in Texas, we have our eyes on another tropical wave that is attempting to strengthen as it approaches the Caribbean. For now the National Hurricane Center puts the development odds of this system at just 20%, but that number could increase in the coming days. A track like what we’re seeing from this system could eventually bring a system into the Gulf of Mexico, but it’s far too early to know if the storm will form, or where it could end up.
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A precautionary boil water notice has been put into effect for multiple areas in northwest Harris County due to a sudden loss of water pressure in the area, according to officials.
These impacted water systems are in the Fairfield area along Highway 290 between Mason Road and Grand Parkway. Officials said the systems lost pressure for a short period of time because the main lines were flushed while a valve was being replaced.
Below are the areas underneath the notice:
Harris County MUD 322
Harris County MUD 354
Harris County MUD 358
Harris County MUD 396
Harris County 397 MUD
Whenever these types of notices are in place, it means you should boil water before brushing your teeth and drinking water. According to the CDC, in many cases, you can use tap water and soap to wash hands during a boil water notice.
The water should be brought to a vigorous rolling boil and then boiled for two minutes. In lieu of boiling, individuals may purchase bottled water or obtain water from some other suitable source for drinking water or human consumption purposes. Also, don’t use ice from an automatic ice machine.
According to the CDC, in many cases, you can use tap water and soap to wash hands during a boil water notice.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said samples will be collected Sunday, and results are expected on Monday.
At that time, officials may lift the boil notice in compliance with the results.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Thousands of people rallied in the streets of Venezuela’s capital Saturday, waving the national flag and singing the national anthem in support of an opposition candidate they believe won the presidential election by a landslide.
Authorities have declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner of last Sunday’s election but have yet to produce voting tallies to prove he won. Maduro also urged his backers to attend his own “mother of all marches” later Saturday in Caracas.
The government arrested hundreds of opposition supporters who took to the streets in the days after the disputed poll, and the president and his cadres have threatened to also lock up opposition leader, María Corina Machado, and her hand-picked presidential candidate, Edmundo González.
On Saturday, supporters chanted and sang as Machado arrived at the rally in Caracas. Ecstatic, they crushed around her as she climbed onto a raised platform on a truck to address the crowd.
“After six days of brutal repression, they thought they were going to silence us, intimidate or paralyze us,” she told them. “The presence of every one of you here today represents the best of Venezuela.”
Machado, who has been barred by Maduro’s government from running for office for 15 years, had been in hiding since Tuesday, saying her life and freedom are at risk. Masked assailants ransacked the opposition’s headquarters on Friday, taking documents and vandalizing the space.
On Saturday, she held aloft a Venezuelan flag and promised that the government whose policies forced millions of Venezuelans to leave was finally coming to an end.
“We have overcome all the barriers! We have knocked them all down,” Machado said. “Never has the regime been so weak.”
González, who remains in hiding, was not seen at the event, and when the rally ended, Machado was given a non-descript shirt and whisked away on the back of a motorcycle.
Carmen Elena García, a 57-year-old street vendor was at the rally even though she feared a government crackdown.
“They have to respect me and they have to respect all the Venezuelans who voted against this government,” García said. “We will not accept them stealing our votes. They have to respect our votes.”
A column of pro-government motorcycle riders, who have served as militia for Maduro in the past, rode near the opposition rally, but there were no confrontations. There was only a light police presence.
The Organization of American States on Saturday called for “reconciliation and justice” in Venezuela, saying “let all Venezuelans who express themselves in the streets find only an echo of peace, a peace that reflects the spirit of democracy.”
Later Saturday, thousands of government supporters gathered before Maduro’s office at the Miraflores national palace. Wearing red caps and shirts — the color of Maduro’s party — they danced and listened to folk songs. There were fewer national flags, and a lot of umbrellas against the burning Caracas sun.
In a long, rambling speech fueled by many cups of coffee, Maduro shouted, whistled, sang and cracked jokes, weaving from pop culture to religious references. He repeated his threat to arrest and jail more opponents, including González, but also called for reconciliation and peace.
“There is room in Venezuela for everyone,” he said, calling it “the blessed land of opportunity.”
Machado and González, a 74-year-old former diplomat, said tally sheets they obtained from voting machines in polling centers nationwide show Maduro clearly lost his bid for a third six-year term.
An Associated Press analysis Friday of vote tally sheets released by the opposition coalition indicates that Gonzalez won significantly more votes in the election than the government has claimed, casting serious doubt on the official declarationthat Maduro won.
Late Friday, Venezuela’s high court, the Supreme Justice Tribunal, ordered the Maduro-controlled National Electoral Council to hand over the precinct vote count sheets in three days. There have been calls from multiple governments, including Maduro’s close regional allies, for Venezuela’s electoral authorities to release the precinct-level tallies, as it has after previous elections.
The AP processed almost 24,000 images of tally sheets, representing the results from 79% of voting machines. Each sheet encoded vote counts in QR codes, which the AP programmatically decoded and analyzed, resulting in tabulations of 10.26 million votes.
According to the calculations, the González received 6.89 million votes, nearly half a million more than the government says Maduro won. The tabulations also show Maduro received 3.13 million votes from the tally sheets released.
By comparison, the National Electoral Council said Friday that based on 96.87% of tally sheets, Maduro had won 6.4 million votes and Gonzalez had 5.3 million. National Electoral Council President Elvis Amoroso attributed the delay in filing complete results to attacks on the “technological infrastructure.”
The tally sheets, known in Spanish as “actas,” are lengthy printouts that resemble shopping receipts. They have long been considered the ultimate proof of election results in Venezuela.
The AP could not independently verify the authenticity of the 24,532 tally sheets provided by the opposition. The AP successfully extracted data from 96% of the provided vote tallies, with the remaining 4% of images too poor to parse.
The Biden administration has thrown its support firmly behind the opposition. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken released a statement Thursday citing “overwhelming evidence that González was the victor and discrediting the National Electoral Council’s official results.
González posted a message on X thanking the U.S. “for recognizing the will of the Venezuelan people.”
Maduro said Friday that the U.S. should stay out of Venezuela’s politics.
Venezuela sits atop the world’s largest proven crude reserves and once boasted Latin America’s most advanced economy, but it entered into a free fall marked by 130,000% hyperinflation and widespread shortages after Maduro took the helm in 2013. More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2014, the largest exodus in Latin America’s recent history.
U.S. oil sanctions have only deepened the misery, and the Biden administration — which had been easing those restrictions — is now likely to ramp them up again unless Maduro agrees to some sort of transition.
There has been a flurry of diplomatic efforts by Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to convince Maduro to allow an impartial audit of the vote. On Thursday, the governments of the three countries issued a joint statement calling on Venezuela’s electoral authorities “to move forward expeditiously and publicly release” detailed voting data.
In her second move since resuming control over Donald Trump’s federal election interference case, Judge Tanya Chutkan denied the former president’s motion to dismiss the case based on selective and vindictive prosecution.
In denying Trump’s motion, Chutkan criticized what she called Trump’s “improper framing” that the allegations against him are a “theory…that it is illegal to dispute the outcome of an election and work with others to propose alternate electors.”
“At this stage, the court cannot accept Defendant’s alternate narrative,” Chutkan wrote.
Before the federal case was frozen for more than half a year, defense attorneys attempted to have the case thrown out by arguing that Trump was selectively prosecuted and unfairly targeted “to prevent him from becoming ‘the next President again.'”
“After reviewing Defendant’s evidence and arguments, the court cannot conclude that he has carried his burden to establish either actual vindictiveness or the presumption of it, and so finds no basis for dismissing this case on those grounds,” Chutkan wrote in a 16-page order.
Chutkan found that Trump failed to provide evidence for either prong of the two-part test to prove selective prosecution – that he was singled out for prosecution or that the case was motivated by a discriminatory purpose.
“Finding no evidence of discriminatory purpose in the sources Defendant cites, the court is left only with his unsupported assertions that this prosecution must be politically motivated because it coexists with his campaign for the Presidency,” Chutkan wrote.
Earlier in the day, Chutkan set a hearing for Aug. 16 at 10 a.m., which Trump is not required to attend.
This will be the first time in seven months the parties will appear in Chutkan’s courtroom. Chutkan also denied Trump’s motion to dismiss the case on statutory grounds.
Trump last year pleaded not guilty to charges of undertaking a “criminal scheme” to overturn the results of the 2020 election by enlisting a slate of so-called “fake electors,” using the Justice Department to conduct “sham election crime investigations,” trying to enlist the vice president to “alter the election results,” and promoting false claims of a stolen election as the Jan. 6 riot raged — all in an effort to subvert democracy and remain in power.
The former president has denied all wrongdoing.
Trump originally faced a March 4 trial date before his appeal effectively paused the proceedings.
WASHINGTON — Suspense is building as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate selection announcement nears — with the process now resting in her own hands as of Friday, a person familiar tells ABC News.
The vetting, led by former Attorney General Eric Holder and his team at the Covington and Burling law firm, has concluded and the process has been turned over to Harris, the source said.
They will make stops in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
News that the process has now entered this final stage was first reported by the New York Times.
All eyes are now on potential running mates — a mix of governors and one senator. Sources have confirmed to ABC News that Harris’ vetting team has met with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has canceled the fundraisers he had planned in the Hamptons this weekend, ABC News has confirmed. It’s unclear now what his weekend schedule entails.
In a gaggle with the press following a bill signing ceremony on Friday in Pennsylvania, Shapiro dodged a series of questions about the running mate process.
“I think any process questions like that should go directly to the Harris campaign,” Shapiro said when asked if he’d met yet with Harris.
When asked what he’d bring to a presidential ticket, he said, “I’m not going to engage in those kinds of hypotheticals,” he said.
But when asked if he’d be in “Philadelphia on Tuesday” — when Harris is scheduled to campaign for the first time with her running mate — Shapiro responded: “I hope to be.”
When asked by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Monday if he was being vetted, Buttigieg laughed and said “probably.”
In an appearance on ABC’s “The View” on Friday, Buttigieg was more circumspect: ” I’m flattered to even be mentioned in this context, and it’s a very important choice, and she’s going to make the choice that is right for her, for the ticket in the campaign, but most of all, for the country.”
Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly told MSNBC on Wednesday that he was “not going to get into any of that. I am going to be focused on making sure that Kamala is the next president.”
He noted his wife, former Rep. Gabby Giffords, has campaigned for Harris in recent days in Michigan and Pennsylvania, but noted, “next week, my plans right now are to be in Arizona.”
Appearing on MSNBC on Thursday night, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said that “I’m not going to talk about the conversations I’ve had about that.
Pressed on if that suggests there were conversations and what they were, Pritzker said, “Well, naturally people have called to talk to me about the possibility of being the vice presidential candidate. I’m not going to say who those people were or talk about those conversations. But, I’m flattered by all of it.”
What about his weekend plans? Pritzker had some fun answering: “Lollapalooza is happening this weekend here in Chicago … I’ve heard other governors talking about how they’ve canceled their weekend plans. I was gonna perform, of course, with Blink-182 on Sunday, but I’ve canceled in order to clear my schedule.”
Walz also has declined to directly address if he is in contention, telling reporters Thursday, “I’m not interviewing for anything. I’m just, am who I am, and put it out there,” adding that the decision belongs to Harris.
In a tongue-in-cheek aside later, he added, “I don’t know if every high school geography teacher expects to be in this position at some point, but it is very strange to be running on my treadmill and have people talking about the things that are there and and I scream back, this guy is too old.”
Another possible vice presidential contender, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, gave a stump-style speech at a dinner hosted by the Oklahoma Democratic Party on Thursday night, praising Harris as someone who is “going to move us into the future”
“As she says, ‘we’re not going back.’ Or as I say, ‘we ain’t going back,'” he added.
President Joe Biden — who endorsed Harris’ presidential bid immediately after he withdrew from the race — is giving no hints as to who Harris might choose.
Leaving the White House on Friday, Biden said “yes” when asked if he has spoken to Harris about her running mate.
“I’ll let her work that out,” Biden said when asked what qualities Harris should look for in who she chooses.
Asked who Harris should select, Biden did not respond and laughed.
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby was strengthening rapidly Sunday and was predicted to become a hurricane as it moves through the Gulf of Mexico on a collision course with the Florida coast.
The National Hurricane Center said in an update posted at 8 a.m. Sunday that Debby was located about 155 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of Tampa, Florida, and about 205 miles (330 kilometers) south-southwest of Cedar Key, Florida. The storm was moving north-northwest at 13 mph (20 kph) with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (85 kph), up from 50 mph (80) just a few hours ago.
The storm was strengthening over the southeastern Gulf and expected to be a hurricane before making landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida, the hurricane center said.
“I’d urge all Floridians to be cognizant of the fact that we are going to have a hurricane hit the state, probably a Category 1, but it could be a little bit more powerful than that,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a Sunday morning briefing.
“But we are absolutely going to see a lot of rainfall. We are going to see a lot of saturation. We are going to see flooding events. That is going to happen. There is also going to be power outages,” the governor said.
Wind and thunderstorms have spread over a broad area including southern Florida, the Florida Keys and the Bahamas.
Hurricane and tropical storm warnings were in effect for portions of the northern Florida coast.
Debby is likely to bring drenching rain and coastal flooding to much of Florida’s Gulf Coast by Sunday night and predictions show the system could come ashore as a hurricane Monday and cross over northern Florida into the Atlantic Ocean.
Forecasters warn it also could drop heavy rains over north Florida and the Atlantic coasts of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina early next week.
Debby is the fourth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season after Tropical Storm Alberto, Hurricane Beryl and Tropical Storm Chris, all of which formed in June.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami predicted the system will strengthen as it curves off the southwest Florida coast, where the water has been extremely warm. Intensification was expected to proceed more quickly later on Sunday.
A hurricane warning was issued for parts of the Big Bend and the Florida Panhandle, while tropical storm warnings were posted for Florida’s West Coast, the southern Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas. A tropical storm watch extended farther west into the Panhandle. A warning means storm conditions are expected within 36 hours, while a watch means they are possible within 48 hours.
Tropical storms and hurricanes can trigger river flooding and overwhelm drainage systems and canals. Forecasters warned of 6 to 12 inches (150mm to 300 mm) of rain and up to 18 inches (450 mm) in isolated areas, which could create “locally considerable” flash and urban flooding. Forecasters also warned of moderate flooding for some rivers along Florida’s West Coast.
Heaviest rain could be in Georgia, South Carolina
Some of the heaviest rains could actually come next week along the Atlantic Coast from Jacksonville, Florida, through coastal regions of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. The storm is expected to slow down after making landfall.
“We could see a stall or a meandering motion around coastal portions of the southeastern United States,” National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan said in a Saturday briefing. “So that’s going to exacerbate not just the rainfall risk, but also the potential for storm surge and some strong winds.”
Flat Florida is prone to flooding even on sunny days, and the storm was predicted to bring a surge of 2 to 4 feet (0.6 to 1.2 meters) along most of the Gulf Coast, including Tampa Bay, with a storm tide of up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) north of there in the sparsely populated Big Bend region.
Forecasters warned of “a danger of life-threatening storm surge inundation” in a region that includes Hernando Beach, Crystal River, Steinhatchee and Cedar Key. Officials in Citrus and Levy counties ordered a mandatory evacuation of coastal areas, while those in Hernando, Manatee, Pasco and Taylor counties called for voluntary evacuations. Shelters opened in those and some other counties.
Citrus County Sheriff Mike Prendergast estimated 21,000 people live in his county’s evacuation zone. Officials rescued 73 people from storm surge flooding during last year’s Hurricane Idalia. Prendergast said by phone that he hopes not to have a repeat with Debbie.
“After the storm surge does come in, we simply don’t have enough first responders in our agency and among the other first responders in the county to go in and rescue everybody that might need to be rescued,” he said.
Flood preparations underway
DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 61 of Florida’s 67 counties, with the National Guard activating 3,000 guard members. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp made his own emergency proclamation on Saturday.
The White House said federal and Florida officials were in touch and FEMA “pre-positioned” resources including water and food.
In Tampa alone, officials gave out more than 30,000 sandbags to barricade against flooding.
“We’ve got our stormwater drains cleared out. We’ve got our generators all checked and full. We’re doing everything that we need to be prepared to face a tropical storm,” Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said.
On Friday, crews pulled floating cranes away from a bridge construction project across Tampa Bay, lashing together 74 barges and 24 floating cranes and anchoring them, project engineer Marianne Brinson told the Tampa Bay Times. Crews also laid down cranes on land on their sides.
For some, the name Debby summons bad memories of a 2012 tropical storm of the same name that caused $250 million in losses and eight deaths, including seven in the Sunshine State. That storm dumped torrential rains, including an astronomical 29 inches (730 mm) south of Tallahassee.
This combination photo shows Vice President Kamala Harris, left, at the White House in Washington, July 22, 2024, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at an event July 26, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Just 99 days before Election Day, a fundamentally new race is taking shape with new candidates, a new issue focus and a new outlook for both parties. Harris is smashing fundraising records and taking over social media. Republicans are fearful and frustrated as they struggle to accept the new reality that Trump’s victory is no sure thing. (AP Photo)
“I have agreed with Fox News to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th. The Debate was previously scheduled against Sleepy Joe Biden on ABC, but has been terminated in that Biden will no longer be a participant, and I am in litigation against ABC Network and George Slopadopoulos, thereby creating a conflict of interest,” Trump said in his post.
“The Fox News Debate will be held in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at a site in an area to be determined,” he continued. “The Moderators of the Debate will be Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, and the Rules will be similar to the Rules of my Debate with Sleepy Joe, who has been treated horribly by his Party – BUT WITH A FULL ARENA AUDIENCE!….”
Trump had been willing to go toe-to-toe with President Joe Biden and a debate had originally been scheduled for Sept. 10 on ABC News. However, after Biden dropped out of the race last month and Harris has become the presumptive Democratic nominee, Trump had been noncommittal about whether or not he would engage in a debate with Harris.
“I want to do a debate. But I also can say this. Everybody knows who I am. And now people know who she is,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News last Monday.
Trump has skipped debates before and didn’t partake in any of of the 2024 Republican presidential primary debates.
Meanwhile, Trump and Harris have kicked off an ad war targeting each other in key battleground states, with Harris launching a $50 million three-week ad blitz ahead of the Democratic National Convention while Trump has reserved $12 million worth of airtime across Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin, according to AdImpact.
No immediate details about the potential debate have been released.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A West University Place home builder, who was the center of a frantic search last year, was federally charged with wire fraud on Friday, according to U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
Brett Detamore, 39, was a custom home builder under the name Detamore Development LLC and is a father of three, Hamdani’s office said.
In June 2023, he left his West U home and allegedly disappeared. His wife reported him missing. His truck was found on fire in Bear Creek Park. For days, volunteers and law enforcement agencies searched for him. On the sixth day, West University Place police revealed they believed it was all made up. He was found at a bus stop in San Antonio “a bit fazed and a bit disheveled.”
Since then, civil lawsuits have been filed, claiming fraud and theft. Now, Detamore faces a criminal charge.
Court documents allege that Detamore fraudulently used money intended to build private homes to earn at least $1.5 million through fraud for his own use.
A day before he went missing, he “continued to make false statements in furtherance of the fraudulent scheme,” records state, and he allegedly submitted fraudulent and fake bills to banks that held construction loans for single-family homes he had been authorized to build, according to Hamdani’s office.
Detamore’s first federal court appearance is set for Aug. 12 at 2 p.m. He has not been arrested and is only charged with one count, which is telling, according to Michael Wynne, a former federal prosecutor not associated with the case.
“A deal has been cut. There’s no question about that. It’s one count. The information shows it could have been many more, so there’s a deal,” he said.
In an email responding to the criminal charge, Detamore’s defense attorney, Tate Williams, wrote, “I appreciate your interest, but we will not comment on this matter.”
Attorney Butch Boyd represents several former clients of Detamore’s who have filed lawsuits. Boyd said they were left with half-built homes and stolen funds and are still recovering long after the bizarre headlines disappeared.
“You’ve got the truck burning, fake disappearance, coming back, the news all over it,” Boyd said. “But there’s people who are really hurt by this financially. They feel violated. He’s never going to make that right, but this is a great step moving forward, in terms of indictment.”
Detamore could face up to 20 years in prison with a maximum $250,000 fine if convicted.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — CenterPoint Energy officials are no longer asking customers to foot the bill for new poles and power lines after intense criticism from elected officials and the public.
In March, Centerpoint requested to increase rates by $1.25 per month.
It was meant to recover the $6 billion the electric company has spent on its power lines and poles in the Houston region since 2019.
Since Derecho and Hurricane Beryl, Houston and Texas leaders have pressed the company about where customers’ money has been going.
Centerpoint said this is a company-wide commitment to immediately improve this hurricane season and is still considering a rate spike to deal with the latest disasters.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is among those hoping to fill the seat in the Texas 18th Congressional District left vacant after Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee’s passing.
Turner formally announced his candidacy on Friday after telling ABC13 last month he was “strongly considering” a bid for the seat.
“The historic 18th Congressional District in the heart of Houston is without representation today. Upon the passing of my dear friend, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, we have a painful decision to make. We need to select who will fill her shoes, as we mourn her death,” he said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Former City Council member Amanda Edwards has launched her campaign, along with former Councilman Dwight Boykins.
“I am honored to share with you that I am running to succeed the Late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee to serve as the next Congresswoman for the 18th Congressional District. We are thankful for her years of service. We must honor her strong legacy by continuing and building upon her efforts in addition to bringing forth new solutions, as well,” Edwards wrote on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
State Rep. Jarvis Johnson has also announced his plans to run.
The precinct chairs in District 18 will decide on the candidate before Aug. 18 because the Democratic National Convention begins in Chicago on Aug. 19.
