Democratic
Casey Shepard
Major-party general-election nominee.
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Texas District 17 election, 2026
Casey Shepard vs. Pete Sessions on a newly enacted 2026 district map.
VotePredictor forecast
Pete Sessions favored
Safe R · predicted margin R+13.7
98%
chance to win
2024 presidential lean
R+21.52026 national environment
D+5.5Model uncertainty
±6.9 pointsFundamentals model using district presidential lean, incumbency and the national environment. It is not a poll average.
Republican
Pete Sessions
Incumbent representative for TX-17. Voting record, ideology and biography →
Polls
No district-level 2026 general-election poll is currently in VotePredictor's verified polling feed for TX-17. The forecast above therefore uses fundamentals only. A poll table will appear here when matched polls are available.
Other forecasts
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Candidate news
Disillusioned Republican says he can't bring himself to vote for some of his own party
LUBBOCK — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said Thursday that Republicans are going to lose some statewide elections this year because of data centers, which has become a heated issue for Texas across the state. In an interview with The Texas Tribune…
Raw Story · August 6, 2026
Fox Host Goes Ballistic Over Bill To Help American Farmers
Rep. Pete Sessions appeared on Fox's The Big Weekend Show to discuss a bill aimed at helping American farmers by expanding and expediting the agricultural guestworker program. This is not a new subject, and even Pedolph Shitler said that they would have to co…
Crooksandliars.com · August 3, 2026
GOPer Gets Truth Bombed About 'Insane, Pedophilic' Trump During C-SPAN Call
Bless GOP Rep. Pete Sessions' heart as he was forced to sit there like a good soldier as a C-SPAN caller identified as Jack in Silver Spring, Maryland, dropped the mother of all truth bombs on his Texas ass: "Your party has given the power of the presidency t…
Crooksandliars.com · March 26, 2026
Republican Rep. Declines to Defend Trump From Claim He’s a Pedophile
When Texas Representative Pete Sessions went on C-SPAN to take questions from everyday Americans on Wednesday morning, he was probably expecting something a bit more polite than what he got.Instead, the Republican lawmaker received a call from “Jack, in Silve…
The New Republic · March 25, 2026
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