Morning Digest: Democratic congressman in Texas indicted on bribery charges

_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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● TX-28: Federal prosecutors announced Friday that they had indicted Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife for allegedly accepting close to $600,000 in bribes from an oil company controlled by the government of Azerbaijan and from a bank based in Mexico.

The Texas congressman responded to NBC's initial report about the charges by proclaiming his innocence and insisting he would remain on the ballot.

"I'm running for re-election and will win this November," Cuellar said in a statement.