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  Share Source: AP Photo/John Raoux National Democrats hoped to flip a House seat in a Texas special election that occurred over the weekend, but were unsuccessful. The election occurred to fill the seat vacated by the late Rep. Ron Wright (R-TX), who died of COVID earlier this year. The crowded field of contenders in the special election will ultimately end in a runoff between two Republicans, as Democrats were shut out. The late congressman’s wife, Susan Wright, leads the runoff. She will...

Donald Trump saves the special election in TX 06- Kinzinger the big loser Representative Ron Wright died earlier this year and his death led to a special election. Twenty-three candidates ran for his seat: 11 Republicans, 10 Democrats, 1 libertarian, 1 independent. The congressional district (CD-06) runs from southeast of the Dallas-Fort Worth area to rural Ellis and Navarro counties.  President Trump won the district in 2020 by three points. Donald Trump’s candidate, Ron Wright’s wife, ju...

This Yankee moved to Texas to run for Congress and it obviously didnt go well FacebookTwitterEmail Some Yankee thought he could fool us all with a fake accent and make it into Congress.  Rodimers bid to "make America Texas again" didnt 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...

( CNBC) India continues to smash its own global COVID-19 case records, with over 400,000 new cases on Saturday; NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, recommended a lockdown to slow the surge. ( VOA News) And cases and deaths in the country may be even higher than whats being reported; "Nobodys getting tested!" a resident of the village of Ashapur told NPR. As of Monday at 8:00 a.m. EDT, the unofficial U.S. COVID-19 toll reached 32,422,234 cases and 577,045 deaths, increases of nearly 350,000 case...

(AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File) This morning, I reported on the results of the TX-06 special election which resulted in a Republican lockout. What that means is that in the jungle primary system there, the top two finishers who will go to a runoff are both Republicans. In a district that went only Trump +3 in 2020, the GOP combined for around 69% of the vote. That’s a massive overperformance, though, as others have pointed out, turnout was low. I think you can look at this two ways. One, you ca...

A special election to replace the late Rep. Ron Wright For Democrats, the results serve to underscore a lesson they say they learned the hard way in 2020, one that could decide which party wins control of the House of Representatives in next year’s midterm elections: They have to start showing up. The final results show that Susan Wright, a Republican activist and the late congressman’s widow, will face state Rep. Jake Ellzey (R) in a runoff election to be scheduled by Gov. Greg Abbott (R)....

File – An election officer passes out stickers. (Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 8:42 AM PT – Monday, May 3, 2021 Susan Wright is advancing to the runoff election to take up the House seat of her late husband Rep. Ron Wright. The special election, held Saturday, showed Wright garnering the most votes out of the 23 candidates looking to take the spot in the House of Representatives. Wright led the race while receiving around 19 percent of the vote in her bid f...

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 COV...

Susan Wright leads in tight race for open U.S. House seat in Texas Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1 hr ago Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram May 2—Republican Susan Wright, the wife of late U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, has the lead in the race for Congressional District 6, with the special election headed into a runoff. With all polling places reporting, Wright had 19.2% of the votes, according unofficial numbers from the Texas Secretary of State. Next behind her were Republican S...

While Ron Wright was reelected by 9 percentage points in 2020, the 6th District has been trending more Democratic in recent elections. In 2012, Mitt Romney carried the district with a 17-percentage point margin. Trump won it by 12 percentage points in 2016 but by only 3 last year. An outspoken anti-Trump Republican, Michael Wood ran on a message that put him far outside the mainstream of the GOP. Wood called for Republicans to reject Trump and stop perpetuating conspiracy theories like the ...