The 78-year-old Democrat is eschewing a possible member-on-member primary, but did not indicate whether he will retire from Congress.

The announcement from Rep. Lloyd Doggett means Texas Democrats appear to have avoided a potentially messy congressional primary.

The Texas Senate on Saturday approved new congressional maps drawn to help Republicans win as many as five more House seats in next year’s midterm elections.

Texas Democrats are preparing their final show of resistance against a mid-decade redraw of the state's congressional map

The map’s passage was a major victory in President Trump’s push to get Republican state leaders to help his party keep control of the U.S. House.

It would require FEMA to reinstate employees fired by the Trump administration and reinstate a federal flood mitigation assistance program.