Former state Sen. Don Huffines announces he’ll challenge Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2022 GOP primary
The Dallas businessman says Texans are “out of patience” over “open” border, high property taxes and “corrupt election procedures.”
Former state Sen. Don Huffines, shown at an October 2019 event by opponents of impeaching then-President Donald Trump in Richardson, Texas, announced on Monday that he is running for governor next year.((Robert W. Hart/Special Contributor))
Updated at 4:53 p.m.:
to include remarks from a Huffines speech in Collin County in February.
AUSTIN Former Texas state Sen. Don Huffines is running for governor, and from the broadsides he launched against two-term Gov. Greg Abbott’s stewardship on Monday, it’s clear the Dallas businessman will try to attack the incumbent Republican from the right.
Susan Wright vs. Jake Ellzey renews rivalry, with Donald Trump, Rick Perry as key players
The Congressional District 6 race to replace Ron Wright could get nasty as leading Republicans battle for votes in urban areas and small towns.
LEFT IMAGE: Susan Wright, a Republican candidate running in the 6th Congressional District of Texas race, answers questions during a forum hosted by the Arlington Republican Club at Studio Movie Grill in Arlington on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (Juan Figueroa/ The Dallas Morning News)
RIGHT IMAGE: Undated handout photo of Jake Ellzey, candidate for Congressional District 6 in north Texas. (Dallas Morning News archives)(Steve Hamm/Special Contributor/Dallas Morning News archives)
3 election takeaways: Trump king of GOP, Mayor Johnson’s political setback, Dems humbled in CD-6
Saturday night’s result will set the tone for 2022 and beyond.
Paul Roblyer from Portland, Ore., holds a flag of with an image of former President Donald Trump as a few hundred people attend a second amendment rally at Riverfront Park on Saturday May 1, 2021 in Salem, Ore. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)(Paula Bronstein)
Donald Trump in full control of GOP
Michael Wood shot at the king and missed.
Make no mistake about it, Donald Trump is king of the Republican Party, including in Texas.
Wood, a Marine veteran and businessman, campaigned to replace Ron Wright in North Texas’ Congressional District 6 as the anti-Trump candidate. He didn’t back away from it. At times facing groans and jeers, Wood told voters that the Republican Party needed to move away from Trump.
Republicans Susan Wright, Jake Ellzey leading in the race to replace the late Ron Wright in Congress
Democrat Jana Lynne Sanchez in a close third in the GOP-leaning district in early voting.
LEFT IMAGE: Susan Wright, a Republican candidate running in the 6th Congressional District of Texas race, answers questions during a forum hosted by the Arlington Republican Club at Studio Movie Grill in Arlington on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (Juan Figueroa/ The Dallas Morning News)
RIGHT IMAGE: Undated handout photo of Jake Ellzey, candidate for Congressional District 6 in north Texas. (Dallas Morning News archives)
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On call backing Susan Wright, Donald Trump blasts Joe Biden, suggests he won Texas by larger margin
On call backing Susan Wright, Donald Trump blasts Joe Biden, suggests he won Texas by larger margin
The former president says Wright best choice to fill her late husband’s congressional seat in North Texas.
US President Donald Trump holds a bag during a visit to the new Louis Vuitton factory in Alvarado (40 miles south of Fort Worth), Johnson County, Texas on October 17, 2019. - A workshop of the French brand Louis Vuitton will be inaugurated in Texas by Donald Trump, in the presence of Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH, who had indicated to the American President in 2017 that he was ready to invest more in the United States. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)(NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP via Getty Images)