Beth Van Duyne at the 2017 Texas Tribune Festival. The former Irving mayor won a North Texas congressional seat in November. Credit: Marjorie Kamys Cotera for The Texas Tribune
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Early in her bid for a North Texas congressional seat, Beth Van Duyne went on âFox & Friendsâ with three other Republican women to take aim at the brand of liberalism they planned to fight in Washington, D.C.
Informally named a âconservative squadâ â the GOPâs antidote to a quartet of progressive women in the U.S. House known as âthe squadâ â Van Duyne said that, if elected, the GOP groupâs goal was to influence a Congress ârun by extremists.â