Republicans Susan Wright and state Rep. Jake Ellzey have advanced to a runoff in Texas’ 6th Congressional District special election to replace the late Rep. Ron Wright (R-TX), following his death earlier this year from COVID-19.
We will see what happens in 2022. Clearly neither is a favorite.
Did they ever uncover which Republican it was who paid for the robocalls saying that Wright killed her husband with Covid for the insurance money? They way these people enjoy victimhood it could just as well have been her.
TX-06 is most of Arlington plus all of Ellis and Navarro Counties. It is roughly 2/3rds rural, and was basically never going to be won by a Dem. More than 60% of the votes in the special election went to Republicans.
You can get the raw totals among the 23! candidates here: https://www.270towin.com/news/2021/05/01/overview-live-results-texas-6th-congressional-district-special-election_1181.html
Does roger stone do texas? If not, my bet is jacob wohl (or is he under a consent decree right now?).
My response:
Every D who ran in this race and didn’t break into the top 2 of D candidates should be blacklisted for life by donors, voters, DCCC etc for obviously being a self-involved dangerous idiot.
It’s worrying that R voters turned out in far greater number than D voters. Basically we’re toast in 2022 unless Dem leaders stop normalizing the GOP and start firing up the D base for a historic midterm fight against the party that just tried to steal the last election by force. (For context, I was very bullish about 2018 and 2020.).
Plus, Republicans are very skilled at coffin-thumping to win an election for the next person in the family of the deceased do-nothing.
Do you never tire of posting fatuous twaddle?
That one misses that there were more than 20 candidatrs hoping to be in the top two in order to advance. And in a district heavily republican.
“Fatuous twaddle” (((snicker)))
Of the votes cast, 62.0% went to gop, 37.3% went to dems. Doesn’t look like a winnable district to me.
On a positive note, it appears that Texas does their special elections on saturdays. How did something so sensible slip through there?
don’t let ‘em know they’re bein’ sensible!!
At one point I would advocate support for the fem candidate, but seeing as they’re Republicans, the batshit is in no way gender-specific.
Susan Wright was and is a Republican activist, as well as being the widow.
And - speaking of coffin-thumping - there was a suspiciously timed robo-call attack right before the election.
“How mean!”
I say “how convenient!”
Pretty amazing that a Trump endorsed candidate in Texas only got 19% of the vote, when 60% of the voters went for a Republican. I expect Trump will soon attack all those GOP voters who refused to do as they were told.