Trump-backed candidate projected to lose U.S. House race in Texas-media
By Susan Cornwell
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump s preferred candidate for a U.S. House seat in Texas was projected to lose a special runoff election on Tuesday, defeated by a fellow Republican who raised far more campaign cash, the Texas Tribune newspaper said.
Susan Wright, a 58-year-old Republican activist whom Trump endorsed in April, had sought to finish her late husband Representative Ron Wright s term in the House.
But the newspaper projected that Wright would lose to Texas state legislator Jake Ellzey in Texas 6th congressional district, a longtime Republican-held district outside Dallas. Ellzey was ahead 52.9% to 47.1% for Wright, with 90% of precincts reporting, according to state data that stopped short of declaring a winner.
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