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TX-06: Meet the candidates in the race for Texas open congressional seat A special election will be held May 1 to fill the seat held by Ron Wright until he died in early February. Credit: AP FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2019 file photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., poses during a ceremonial swearing-in with Rep. Ron Wright, R-Texas, fourth from right, on Capitol Hill in Washington during the opening session of the 116th Congress. Wright, the Texas Republican who had battled health challenges...

Susan Wright Joins Julia Letlow in Campaigning for Late Husbands House Seats On 2/24/21 at 12:55 PM EST A second widow of a member of Congress who died of COVID-19 is running to fill her husbands vacant seat at the U.S. Capitol. Rep. Ron Wright of Texas was the first sitting member of Congress to die of COVID-19 earlier this month. Now his wife, Susan Wright, announced her campaign on Wednesday to represent Texas 6th District and is "running to preserve her husbands commitment to bring conserva...

Republican Susan Wright, the widow of the late Congressman Wright, launched her campaign for Congress in Texas’s 6th District on Wednesday. “The taxpayers of the sixth district deserve a proven conservative in Congress who will stand up for them and do whatever it takes to stop the radical left’s socialist government takeover,” Susan Wright said.  “I’m running for Congress to continue my husband’s legacy by supporting economic growth, reforming our broken healthcare system, and...

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Susan Wright, the widow of Rep. Ron Wright, R-Texas, who died earlier in February after contracting COVID-19, announced Wednesday that she will seek the seat he held in Congress.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A May 1 special election has been set to choose a successor to...

Widow of Texas Congressman Who Died of COVID-19 Complications Runs for His Vacant Seat Susan Wright, the widow of Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas), the first sitting Congressman to die due to COVID-19 complications, announced Wednesday that she will run to fill the seat left vacant by his death. “Ron always fought for the people and conservative values of the 6th District,” Susan Wright said in a statement, noting that he was a “staunch defender of President Trump and his America-First agenda.�...

An FDA panel voted Friday to endorse the Johnson & Johnson single dose vaccination, meanwhile the House is expected to push President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill through.

The jockeying is also playing out in House races, with Trump campaign adviser Katrina Pierson having been approached about running to replace the late Rep. Ron Wright Republicans say the maneuvering among Trump’s allies is indicative of the former president’s continuing popularity with grassroots conservatives who are eager for the next wave of leaders to take up his mantle. “It’s still Trump’s party and he may actually have gained in popularity [with the GOP base] since impeachment,�...

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