{"id":113403,"date":"2021-05-02T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T19:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=113403"},"modified":"2021-05-02T19:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T19:27:06","slug":"two-republicans-one-backed-by-trump-head-to-runoff-in-texas-special-congressional-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/two-republicans-one-backed-by-trump-head-to-runoff-in-texas-special-congressional-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Republicans, one backed by Trump, head to runoff in Texas special congressional election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Texas Republican backed by former President Donald Trump has advanced to a runoff election to fill a U.S. House of Representatives vacancy left by the death of her husband, while Democrats were shut out of the contest.<\/p><figcaption>FILE PHOTO: A plane flies across the sky beside the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, U.S., January 15, 2020. REUTERS\/Tom Brenner\/File Photo<\/figcaption><p>Susan Wright, whose husband Ron Wright in February became the first sitting member of Congress to die of COVID-19, was the top vote-getter on Saturday in a crowded field of 23 candidates vying to represent the state\u2019s 6th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>Wright was headed to a runoff against another Republican in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs, a longtime Republican-held district.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats had hoped to pick up the seat to expand their slim House majority. But they conceded Sunday they had missed the chance.<\/p>\n<p>Wright received 19.2% of the vote, followed by former military fighter pilot Jake Ellzey, another Republican, who drew 13.8%, according to the Texas secretary of state\u2019s office. Just 354 votes and less than half a percentage point separated Ellzey from Democrat Jana Lynne Sanchez, who was in third place with 13.4%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats have come a long way toward competing in Texas, but we still have a long way to go,\u201d Sanchez, the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, said in a statement. \u201cTwo Republicans will be competing to represent this congressional district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in a statement, congratulated Wright. \u201cSusan surged after I gave her an endorsement last week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A runoff between the top two vote-getters is required since no candidate received a majority in the first round. A runoff date has not yet been set.<\/p>\n<p>In a bizarre twist on election eve, Wright\u2019s campaign asked federal law enforcement authorities to look into reports of robocalls falsely alleging she had murdered her husband.<\/p>\n<p>The election was the first test of the Texas electorate since President Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 election victory. Trump defeated Biden in Texas, a state where Democrats hope to make inroads.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome may deprive Democrats of their best shot at winning a Republican-held House seat in several special elections scheduled for this year to replace House members who have either died, retired or taken posts in Biden\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>The national Democratic Party did not back any candidate in the contest, although Democrats have made gains in the north Texas district in recent years. Trump won the district by 3 percentage points last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats didn\u2019t get their people out there, and then to the extent to which they did &#8230; they split up a lot of the Democratic votes,\u201d said Mark Jones, a Rice University political science professor.<\/p>\n<p>Jones said Trump\u2019s endorsement, coming just a few days before the election, appeared to have helped Wright.<\/p>\n<p>There were 10 Democrats in the race, as well as 11 Republicans, an independent and a Libertarian. Every seat in the House counts, as Democrats currently have a narrow six-seat majority and will be battling to keep control of both chambers of Congress in the 2022 mid-term elections.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-texas\/two-republicans-one-backed-by-trump-head-to-runoff-in-texas-special-congressional-election-idUSKBN2CJ0B7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Texas Republican backed by former President Donald Trump has advanced to a runoff election to fill a U.S. House of Representatives vacancy [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two Republicans, one backed by Trump, head to runoff in Texas special congressional election - 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