{"id":240082,"date":"2021-05-01T16:55:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T13:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/texas-special-election-held-to-replace-rep-ronald-wright\/"},"modified":"2021-05-01T16:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T13:55:45","slug":"texas-special-election-held-to-replace-rep-ronald-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/texas-special-election-held-to-replace-rep-ronald-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"#Texas special election held to replace Rep. Ronald Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Texas special election held to replace Rep. Ronald Wright<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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In Texas, even the ballots are bigger.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s special election in the state\u2019s 6th Congressional District is a bipartisan, 23-candidate scrum \u2014 with the shadow of President Trump looming over Republicans and Democrats alike.<\/p>\n

Trump this week waded into the race to replace Republican Rep. Ron Wright \u2014 who died of coronavirus complications in February at age 67 \u2014 with a full-throated endorsement of Susan Wright, the congressman\u2019s widow.<\/p>\n

Texans, Trump said in a tele-town hall <\/a>Thursday night, \u201cneed [her] now more than ever, if you look at your border, if you look at what\u2019s happ<\/a>ening\u201d \u2014 calling attention to the Biden administration\u2019s border crisis, which has infuriated Lone Star State voters.<\/p>\n

Unless one candidate notches more than 50 percent of the vote \u2014 an unlikely prospect in such a crowded field \u2014 Saturday\u2019s top two vote-getters will battle it out in a runoff election later this spring.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d be surprised if Trump\u2019s endorsement does not propel Susan Wright into the runoff, at least,\u201d GOP strategist Ford O\u2019Connell told The Post.<\/p>\n

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Susan Wright is running to replace her husband in a special election.<\/figcaption>
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Ron Wright, who had been battling lung cancer, was positioning his wife to take his place months before his death.<\/p>\n

But the results of the 2020 election scrambled expectations in the formerly deep-red district south of Dallas-Fort Worth \u2014 a suburban area that, while still largely Republican, has been trending in the Democrats\u2019 direction.<\/p>\n

Wright won re-election by a comfortable 9-point margin in November, but Trump underperformed, beating Democrat Joe Biden by just 3 points.<\/p>\n

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. is seen during a ceremonial swearing-in with Rep. Ron Wright (fourth from right) on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2019.<\/figcaption>
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That inspired 10 Democrats to leap into the race in hopes of flipping the seat \u2014 along with 11 Republicans, most of them Trump supporters who have carried on a bruising battle among themselves. An independent and a Libertarian round out the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo win, district Democrats have to coalesce around one candidate \u2014 but they have just as many horses running,\u201d O\u2019Connell said. \u201cIf they don\u2019t pick one of them, it could easily end up being two Republicans in the runoff race.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the GOP side, Susan Wright\u2019s supporters have slammed state representative Jake Ellzey<\/a>, her best-known rival, as a Trump skeptic who accepted donations from presidential antagonist Bill Kristol. Two former Trump administration officials, Brian Harrison and Sery Kim, rushed in to claim his mantle. <\/p>\n

Dan Rodimer, a former professional wrestler who nabbed Trump\u2019s blessing for an unsuccessful congressional run in Nevada last year, has been touting that credential in an embarrassingly fake Texas drawl. And a lone \u201cnever Trump\u201d Republican, Michael Wood, won the backing<\/a> of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and other GOP dissidents who voted to impeach Trump in January \u2014 but raised less than $100,000, a pittance compared to his competitors.<\/p>\n

In an off-year special election, when only the most motivated turn out to vote, \u201cThis race is all about the rise of the Republican grass roots,\u201d O\u2019Connell said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that Donald Trump controls the Republican Party \u2014 it\u2019s that the grass roots control the Republican Party,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the base still loves Donald Trump and his agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump has voiced his support for Susan Wright in the race.<\/figcaption>
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Wright\u2019s loss was the second COVID-19 casualty suffered by the Republican congressional delegation, following the December death of Louisiana Rep.-elect Luke Letlow at age 41. <\/p>\n

Letlow\u2019s widow, Julia Letlow, won a March special election to succeed her husband \u2014 after gaining an enthusiastic endorsement from Trump.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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