Winner of Sylvester Turner’s Texas seat has just weeks before next election

Houston voters participate in a runoff election Saturday to determine who will succeed the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, after nearly a year of a vacant seat, only to turn around and have a primary election just weeks later.

Texans will vote in a runoff election between Democrats Christian Menefee and Amanda Edwards to determine who will fill Turner’s seat, almost a year after Democrats accused Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) of stalling on the special election.

Both candidates will then face longtime Rep. Al Green (D-TX), who will be running in Texas’s 18th district after a Trump-backed redistricting effort succeeded, for a primary election on March 3.

Green, who has represented Houston for over two decades, was a civil rights attorney. The longtime Texas Democrat will run