Texas Congressional election heads to runoff with two Republicans in the lead By Aaron Navarro Texas special election head to runoff
Two Republicans are leading in Texas 6th congressional district, likely shutting out Democrats out from from competing in the runoff in what they hoped would be a competitive seat in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs.
Susan Wright was the top vote-getter on Saturday night. Her husband, Ron Wright, previously held the seat before dying from COVID-19 and a battle with lung cancer. I can t tell you how honored I am to be the first-place finisher in this special election to succeed my husband Ron, she said in a statement. Wright was boosted in the last week of the campaign with an endorsement from former President Trump on Monday. She already had backing from local party officials and other Texas Republican Congressmembers.
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Republican Susan Wright, the widow of the late Texas Rep. Ron Wright, will head to a runoff election in her campaign to fill her husband s 6th Congressional District seat.
She is likely to face state Rep. Jake Ellzey, a fellow Republican, in a runoff election to be scheduled no earlier than May 24.
Wright, a longtime Republican party activist, was winning about 23% late Saturday
in the jungle primary special election to fill the seat. Ellzey won about 14%, a few hundred votes ahead of Democratic activist and journalist Jana Lynne Sanchez. Not making the runoff would be a disappointment for Democrats who hope that Texas has become a competitive, two-party purple state, rather than staying as a reliably red one.