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Texas GOP Voters Reject Trump Candidate in Special U.S. Congressional Election

HeadlineJul 28, 2021

In a special election in Texas yesterday, voters rejected a Trump-endorsed candidate and elected another Republican, state Representative Jake Ellzey, to the U.S. House. Ellzey ran an anti-immigration campaign and called himself a “Reagan Republican.” He ran against Susan Wright, the widow of former Congressmember Ron Wright, who died this year from COVID-19, leaving open his seat in Texas’s 6th Congressional District.

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