{"id":605221,"date":"2026-03-04T06:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/605221\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:29:13","slug":"ex-yankees-world-series-star-mark-teixeira-wins-gop-house-primary-race-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/605221\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Yankees World Series star Mark Teixeira wins GOP House primary race in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira<\/a> is projected to win his Republican House primary race in Texas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Teixeira, who helped the Bronx Bombers to a victory in the 2009 World Series, was leading his closest opponent in the Texas 21st Congressional District primary by a 61.4%-10.1% margin when the Associated Press called the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a huge victory, and I\u2019m truly honored to have such strong support from the people of TX-21. Thank you!\u201d Teixeira\u00a0wrote on X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Teixeira, who helped the Bronx Bombers to a victory in the 2009 World Series, was leading his closest opponent in the Texas 21st Congressional District primary by a 61.4%-10.1% margin when the Associated Press called the race.\u00a0 AP<\/p>\n

Mark Teixeira played eight seasons with the Yankees and won the World Series in 2009. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so grateful to everyone who voted, put in the work, donated, and especially prayed for us along the way,\u201d the former baseball star continued. \u201cMy amazing family has been by my side every step of the way \u2013 my wonderful wife Leigh and our three kids \u2013 and I\u2019m blessed by their support as I prepare to serve the country we love.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to run a strong race and win big in November, then hit the ground running to fight for Texas families.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Lone Star State\u2019s 21st District is located in the Texas Hill Country north of San Antonio and west of Austin.<\/p>\n

The district is rated solid Republican by the Cook Political Report, meaning Teixeira is likely to have the edge in the November general election.<\/p>\n

Teixeira is running to succeed Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who is running for attorney general in the Lone Star State\u00a0and advanced to runoff election Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Mark Teixeira described his win on Tuesday night as a \u201chuge victory.\u201d X \/@teixeiramark25<\/p>\n

The three-time MLB All-Star was endorsed by President Trump last month.<\/p>\n

Trump described Teixeira as a \u201cTOTAL WINNER, on and off the field\u201d in his endorsement, which was posted on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

In his campaign announcement last August, Teixeira vowed to \u201cwork with President Trump to secure the border, grow the economy, end radical woke indoctrination, promote American energy independence, defend life and the Second Amendment, end forever wars, and strengthen the military.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teixeira was endorsed by President Trump last month. X \/@teixeiramark25<\/p>\n

Teixeira, who was born in Maryland and attended Georgia Tech, played 14 seasons in the big leagues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Apart from the Yankees, where he finished his career in 2016, Teixeira also played for the Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira is projected to win his Republican House primary race in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,36014,78660,4,62,1239,149,17499,1567,69,3240,4750],"class_list":["post-605221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-mark-teixeira","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-politics","tag-rangers","tag-republicans","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-us-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116169497902190982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}