Cisneros says she will file for a recount in Texas 28th District runoff against Rep. Cuellar

The progressive challenger to incumbent Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar has filed for a recount in their still-too-close-to-call race.

The Texas Democratic Party says fewer than 300 votes separate the candidates in the state's 28th Congressional District race. 

"Our community isn’t done fighting, we are filing for a recount," the 29-year-old Cisneros said Tuesday in calling for the recount. "With just under 0.6 percent of the vote symbolizing such stark differences for the future in South Texas, I owe it to our community to see this through to the end."

Cuellar responded, saying that Cisneros has "every legal right to call for a recount though she had previously stated that she 'wont stop fighting until every vote has been counted.' Well every vote has been counted. ... She has no path to victory and will not gain 281 votes. I welcome this process as it will only further verify our victory."

This is Cisneros' second time running against Cuellar, one of the few remaining socially conservative Democrats in the House.

Cuellar, who had the backing of House Democratic leadership, and Cisneros, who was endorsed by a dream-slate of progressive lawmakers, including Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), as well as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Katie Porter (D-Calif.), ran neck-in-neck from start of the race to finish. 

Cuellar's apparent victory arrives despite a recent FBI raid of his home in relation to an ongoing investigation pertaining to his relationship with Azerbaijan.