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GOP's Jake Ellzey wins US House seat over Trump-backed rival Congressional District 6 candidate Jake Ellzey talks with supporters during an evening fundraiser at Legal Draft in Arlington, Texas on July 14, 2021. A runoff for a U.S. House seat in Texas is deciding who will fill the remaining term of Rep. Ron Wright, who died in February after contracting COVID-19. Voters on Tuesday, July 27 were choosing between Republican Susan Wright, the widow of the late congressman, and Ellzey, a Republican state legislator. (Robert W. Hart/The Dallas Morning News v...

Trump-backed candidate projected to lose U.S. House race in Texas-media By Susan Cornwell Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump's preferred candidate for a U.S. House seat in Texas was projected to lose a special runoff election on Tuesday, defeated by a fellow Republican who raised far more campaign cash, the Texas Tribune newspaper said. Susan Wright, a 58-year-old Republican activist whom Trump endorsed in April, had sought to finish her late husband Representative Ron Wright's term in the House. But the newspaper projected that Wright would lose to Texas state legisl...

July 28, 2021 Texas state Rep. Jake Ellzey (R) is the projected winner of the special election runoff in Texas' 6th Congressional District. With nearly all precincts reporting their results on Tuesday night, Ellzey has 53 percent of the vote, defeating fellow Republican Susan Wright. Wright's late husband, Rep. Ron Wright, represented the 6th Congressional District until his death from COVID-19 in February.  Susan Wright had the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, who also recorded a robocall for her. Trump carried the district in 2016 by 12 points, but in 2020 won by just three po...

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internal polls ahead of the runoff, with two polls showing her with double-digit leads. Democrats hoped they could win the suburban district in the special election called after Ron Wright’s death but were somewhat blindsided after they were locked out of the initial May special election in a 23-way race. Wright had the endorsements of Trump and other influential Republicans, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the No. 3 House Republican. But some other Texas Republicans, notably Rep. Dan Crenshaw, supported Ellzey because of concerns that ads run against him...