Overview
- Haynes, the senior pastor of Dallas’s 13,000-member Friendship-West Baptist Church, filed Monday to run for Texas’s 30th Congressional District after Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a U.S. Senate bid.
- The Democratic primary for the open 30th District includes at least one other candidate, pastor and financial adviser Rodney LaBruce.
- Crockett’s Senate filing coincided with Colin Allred leaving that race to run for the U.S. House in the newly configured, Democratic-leaning 32nd District.
- Marc Veasey was reported to be redirecting plans away from a TX-30 bid toward a campaign for Tarrant County judge, a shift described as clearing space for Haynes.
- Coverage highlighted a politically charged sermon Haynes delivered a day earlier criticizing President Donald Trump and the Supreme Court, while conservative outlets resurfaced his past remarks as likely lines of attack.