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Mondays Campaign Round-Up, 5.3.21 Todays installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. May 3, 2021, 4:00 PM UTC BySteve Benen Todays installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. * In Texas congressional special election over the weekend, Republicans Susan Wright and state Rep. Jake Ellzey will advance to a runoff after no one reached 50% in the 23-candidate field. * On a related note, Susan Wright, the widow of the late Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas), con...

Biden defends proposed tax increases as he pitches education, family safety-net plans Felicia Sonmez, Colby Itkowitz, Eugene Scott, John Wagner © Evan Vucci/AP President Biden speaks at Tidewater Community College in Portsmouth, Va., on Monday. President Biden on Monday defended his proposals to raise taxes on corporations and high-income earners to pay for his sweeping spending plans, casting his initiatives as a matter of fairness as he spoke at a community college in Por...

Biden weighs going big on infrastructure — or going bipartisan Chuck Todd and Mark Murray and Carrie Dann © Provided by NBC News WASHINGTON — Go big or go bipartisan? When President Biden first faced this question earlier this year regarding his Covid-19 relief plan, he decided to go big, opting for his $1.9 trillion package over the Senate GOP’s offer of $600 billion. (Notably, those 10 Senate Republicans never made another counteroffer to split the difference between t...

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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...

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...