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April 26, 2021 GMT ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Former President Donald Trump on Monday gave his endorsement in a Texas special congressional election to Republican Susan Wright, the widow of former U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, who died after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Wright had already racked up a number of prominent GOP endorsements heading into Saturday’s election in Texas’ 6th congressional district, where 23 candidates are on the ballot. The race includes at least two Republicans who worked in the Trump administration and a former congressional candidate in Nevada, Dan Rodimer, who lost last year even though Trump endorsed him. Trump has weighed into other special elections since leaving office, including backing Republican Rep. Julia Letlow of Louisiana, who easily won a special election last month to the seat her husband, Luke, couldn’t fill because of his death from complications related to COVID-19. ....
6:25:54 p.m. Eastern BRET BAIER: Republicans have killed the Democratic efforts to take away one of their seats in the U.S. House, and the GOP is saying that that is sending a message to Washington. Senior correspondent Casey Stegall shows us tonight from Dallas. [Cuts to video] CASEY STEGALL: Rain did not stop Texas voters from casting their ballots in a contentious congressional race over the weekend. A seat Democrats had hoped to flip in Saturday’s special election, but were unsuccessful. SUSAN WRIGHT (R-TX, congressional candidate): I think that the America-first agenda is very passionate priority for the people of this district. ....
This Yankee moved to Texas to run for Congress and it obviously didn t go well FacebookTwitterEmail Some Yankee thought he could fool us all with a fake accent and make it into Congress. Rodimer s bid to make America Texas again didn t go well for him. “The three dirtiest jobs in the world?” Rodimer asks in an apparently serious advertisement released ahead of the election. “Professional wrestling, politician, and bull riding. Let’s go, boys!” Despite moving his wife and seven kids to Mansfield, investing in a cowboy hat, hiring a bull-riding stunt double and adopting a sort-of Southern accent that s definitely not Texan, Rodimer came in 11th with only 3 percent of the vote in the May 1 election. ....
House runoff in Texas set between GOP s Wright, Ellzey May 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) A runoff for a U.S. House seat in Texas is set between Republican Susan Wright, whose husband was the first member of Congress to die after being diagnosed with COVID-19, and Republican Jake Ellzey. Democrat Jana Lynne Sanchez was narrowly locked out of the runoff in Texas 6th Congressional District, which has long been GOP territory. With nearly all votes counted, Sanchez had trailed Ellzey by 354 votes. She said in a statement Sunday that her campaign “came up short.” “Democrats have come a long way toward competing in Texas but we still have a long way to go,” Sanchez said in a statement. ....
ARLINGTON, Texas – A runoff for U.S. House seat in Texas is set between Republican Susan Wright, whose husband was the first member of Congress to die after being diagnosed with COVID-19, and Republican Jake Ellzey. Democrat Jana Lynne Sanchez was narrowly locked out of the runoff in Texas’ 6th Congressional District, which has long been GOP territory. With nearly all votes counted, Sanchez had trailed Ellzey by 354 votes. She said in a statement Sunday that her campaign “came up short.” “Democrats have come a long way toward competing in Texas but we still have a long way to go,” Sanchez said in a statement. ....