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Instead, Democrats were shut out of a runoff in the special election.  Wright received 19.2% of the votes and Republican state Rep. Jake Ellzey 13.9%, according to unofficial results from the Texas Secretary of State’s office. Just 354 votes separated Ellzey and Sanchez. Political analysts and observers say low Democrat turnout, a field of 23 candidates and a district that favors Republicans played a role in keeping a Democrat out of the race.  While former President Trump credits hi...

Print article Former president Donald Trump is moving to handpick members of the House GOP leadership team — relentlessly attacking Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 House Republican, and endorsing Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York to replace her. He is plotting to take down Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach him for inciting the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, while continuing to stoke the false claims of a stolen election that has become a dangerous rallying cry f...

(Mark Makela/Reuters) On the menu today: There’s one big issue consuming Republican politics these days. Since some of my comments on the last edition of What’s Going on in the Fight over Liz Cheney in the House GOP Conference In the suddenly all-consuming matter of whether Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming should remain the House Republican Conference chair, here are the facts. Advertisement Donald Trump is still pretty darn popular among Republicans. He left office with an 82 percen...

Trump’s out-of-power agenda: Retribution against foes, commanding the spotlight and total domination of GOP Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey © Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post Former president Donald Trump speaks during the final day of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021 in Orlando. Former president Donald Trump is moving to handpick members of the House GOP leadership team — relentlessly attacking Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 Hou...

With five strong mayoral candidates that included two city councilmembers, a runoff election for Fort Worth’s top office was always likely if not inevitable. Tarrant County Democratic Party Chair Deborah Peoples took in 22,352 votes, which amounted to roughly one-third of the ballots counted, while Mattie Parker,

Texas GOP gears up for contentious runoff in TX-6 congressional race as Democrats grapple with being shutout Texas Tribune Tags:  Credit: Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via REUTERS Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Days after getting locked out of a special election runoff for Congress in North Texas, Democrats are mulling over what went wrong — and assigning some blame — for the unflattering start to the 2022 election cycle...

A Democratic candidate who lost her bid during last weekend’s Texas congressional special election sounded the alarm that the 2022 midterms “could be a major setback” for the Democratic Party. During the special election, two Republicans - and no Democrats - advanced in the runoff as the top two vote-getters in the race for Texas’s 6th Congressional District, after no one in the 23-candidate field won an outright majority of votes on May 1. Republicans Susan Wright, wife of the late ...

DF_DBR1002.1_HD1080_0.067_166 President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House, Nov. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) 6252915409001 WASHINGTON, DC - If anyone had any doubt that Donald Trump remains in firm control of the Republican Party, look no further than the buzz over whats about to happen to Rep. Liz Cheney, the GOPs 3rd ranking leader in the House of Representatives.   She not only voted to impeach Trump but also challenged his claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. It ...

Danae Columbus Louisiana Republican Party Chair Louis Gurvich greets MAGA activist Scott Presler yesterday at The Cannery, 3803 Toulouse St. Scott Presler is on a mission to convince Republican voters that they must take personal responsibility for their party and America’s future. “You can make a difference. I dare you to say,  ‘I will!’” Presley issued the challenge to an enthusiastic audience of 100 plus Republicans, including former congressional candidate Claston Bernard, Wednes...

Trump aides flood Senate and gubernatorial races as consultants and pollsters More than a dozen onetime aides and advisers to former President Donald Trump have signed on to assist Republicans competing in statewide and federal contests across the country, in some cases setting up potential showdowns in the months to come as they work to cast their candidates as the most Trump-aligned figures in crowded races. Candidates have tapped everyone from former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway an...