GOP's Jake Ellzey wins US House seat over Trump-backed rival

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By PAUL J. WEBER

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Jake Ellzey of Texas won a U.S. House seat on Tuesday night over a rival backed by Donald Trump, dealing the former president a defeat in a test of his endorsement power since leaving office.

Ellzey’s come-from-behind victory over Republican Susan Wright, the widow of the late Rep. Ron Wright, in a special congressional election runoff near Dallas is likely to be celebrated by Trump antagonists who have warned against his continued hold on the GOP. Trump backed Wright from the start and had made one last attempt to give her a boost with a telephone rally Monday night.

Ellzey was carrying more than 53% of the vote in Texas’ 6th Congressional District with results from almost all precincts reported.

“One of things that we’ve seen from this campaign is a positive outlook, a Reagan Republican outlook, for the future of our country is what the people of the 6th District really really want,” Ellzey said to supporters following his victory.



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 via AP)


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[ColinC]

1. YES

Another blow to fascism. F that bankrupt, twice impeached piece of crap.

[Indykatie]

2. I'm Waiting for the Media Stories About This Race Being a Fight For the Heart and Soul of the GOP

That's how they want to hype the OH11 Race between Nina Turner and Shontel Brown. Off cycle House races in deep Blue or Deep Red districts are not a good barometer of the future direction of a political party. Common sense dictates that races with 20% or less of registered voters are nothing but low turn out events.

[smb]

12. Fight For the Heart and Soul of the GOP

That's almost as pathetic as two of our cats wrestling over one piece of kibble.

[ananda]

14. Lol. Good analogy.

!!!

[IronLionZion]

20. GOP has no heart and sold their soul to the devil long ago

[rpannier]

3. Glad she lost

Ellzey is probably also a twit

[summer_in_TX]

4. Great!

Let Trump's supposed power to crown winners quickly show it's all flim-flam, the huckster beginning to be seen for who he is.

I wonder what role Democratic and Independent voters played in that heavily Republican district with that outcome. Did they make a difference deciding between the Trumpist and an old-style R?

May that be an early sign that Dem and Indy voters are highly motivated to turn out and get rid of Trumpists wherever possible.

[Mawspam2]

5. I wouldn't get too excited...

...this is Texas and Republicans never elect women no matter how Trumpy they are.

[MissMillie]

13. I was wondering whether this was the choice of who TX hates more...

women or Trump?

(I say this because of their recent anti-choice law/abortion ban.)

[tanyev]

15. I suspect Trump's endorsement of Wright motivated a lot of Democrats to vote for Ellzey.

That's what I would have done.

[nature-lover]

18. Did for me. I told her person who came to my door that I would never vote for a Trump supporter.

[tanyev]

19. That nonpartisan blanket primary was weird. Never seen that in Texas before.

Was that another ploy to make sure the seat stayed Republican?

[JI7]

17. So those same people would vote for Jim Jordan over Liz Cheney ?

[Grins]

21. That include Kay Bailey Hutchinson...?

I think she came around late in her tenure. Ted Cruz took her seat in 2012 when she retired. Maybe she couldn't keep up the Texas kra-zee...?

[PortTack]

6. Another clear win for tfg! ...NOT His track record of endorsements to wins is dismal

Yet they don’t get that...who advises these ppl??

[monkeyman1]

7. trump is old news now , same ol' shit to say , just plane toxic !!

[Ford_Prefect]

8. Is the GOP who voted this guy in the same GOP that also approve of

the new voting law and other recent cultural regulation in TX?

Where was Greg Abbott on this one?

[Champp]

9. Repubes repudiate TFG and his lackey

What losers

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Good. And seeing how racist and toxic trump's 1/6/21 followers were (after today's

testimonies by Capital police), I am disgusted by anything rump, anyone associated w/ rump, all things rump. Nail their asses (sorry about language) to the wall, it's been far too long that these thugs have been given a megaphone via rump.

[smb]

11. I Can Just Hear Cheato Screeching...

"Fraud!" "Rigged Election!!" "Call the Cyber Ninjas!!!!"

[thucythucy]

16. Will the cyber ninjas be brought in?

Will there be a recount? A fraudit audit?

If Democrats were as invested in dirty tricks as the 'Pubs, there would be a dark money "conservative pro-Trump" group issuing press statements and filing lawsuits and demanding hearings on how the GOP establishment "stole" this election. A press conference next to a sex toy shop featuring some sweaty attorneys. And then a call to boycott the general because of all the "fraud."

If nothing else it would make for some great parody/performance art.

Not that I would ever endorse such an underhanded endeavor.

But I can dream, can't I?