Flores becomes 5th Texas GOP congressman retiring in 2020
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Five-term Texas Rep. Bill Flores won’t run for re-election in 2020, becoming the state’s fifth Republican congressman to say he’s leaving.
His announcement Wednesday brings the number of House Republicans retiring next year to 15.
One-third of them are from Texas, where a generation of GOP dominance is weakening amid demographic changes and booming suburbs that are trending to Democrats.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Flores easily held onto to his mostly rural district last year, unlike other Republican incumbents who got a scare in races closer to Texas’ big cities.
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Flores says he made a commitment when he first ran for Congress that he would serve fewer than six terms.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Among the other Texans leaving are Will Hurd, the House’s only black Republican, and Rep. Michael Conaway, a former House Agriculture Committee chairman.