Domenico Montanaro

Longtime Texas Congressman Democrat Al Green is in a race that's too close to call in a redrawn district against a younger member of Congress who only took office last month.

A handful of others also woke up to close races that have not yet been decided.

Each is facing unique challenges, but it's something to watch in a year when people are saying they're increasingly skeptical of politics and politicians.

Domenico Montanaro, NPR News, Washington.

Well, look, this is part of the Trump administration's push to try to rein in what they see as information that's too liberal on TV.

This is obviously something that President Trump pays very close attention to.

He loves TV.

He

And it really rankles him and rankles a lot of conservatives that they feel like there are way too many of these networks that are pushing a liberal agenda in their view.

And we've seen in past administrations, in Democratic administrations, where conservatives have complained that they feel like they are under assault.

That's their view.

They see the country as moving in too much of a liberal direction.

And they've tried to really reverse that aircraft carrier.

And Brendan Carr, who's the chairman of the FCC, was elevated to that position by President Trump.

He has kind of been Trump's bulldog on this, going after media organizations in ways we really haven't seen before.

Well, and David noted there the obviously very liberal senator from Texas, Ted Cruz.

He's obviously a Republican from Texas.

But Carr's statements and the way that he's approached the media has really made a lot of libertarians really uncomfortable and they lean a little bit more.

But this is not exactly what they envisioned as they see censorship in something like this or a chilling effect, you know, because we've seen conservatives before this or libertarian types within the Republican Party saying that they felt like free speech was being infringed upon by the left.

Well, this certainly is a more explicit way of free speech being infringed upon in many people's views by the right, by the Trump administration.