Ed Meier recently became the second noteworthy Democrat to join the race against Republican Rep. Pete Sessions in Texas’ 32nd District, a highly educated suburban north Dallas seat that lurched from 57-42 Romney to 49-47 Clinton. Meier is a former Hillary Clinton staffer who had served as the co-executive director of what was supposed to be her transition team, but had since been talked up as a potential challenger to Sessions in a district that national Democrats hope to put into play in 2018.
This district is historically quite red downballot despite narrowly rejecting Trump, and 11-term incumbent Sessions will likely not be an easy target. Nonetheless, Democrats are eager to oppose the conservative stalwart in 2018, and ex-Tennessee Titans football player and current civil rights lawyer Colin Allred already announced his candidacy in April.