Posted on 07/29/2021 5:27:47 AM PDT by lasereye
Tuesday was election day in a special race to select a successor to Rep. Ron Wright in Texas’ Sixth Congressional District. Wright died from the Wuhan coronavirus.
The candidates were Wright’s widow, Susan Wright, and Texas state Rep. Jake Ellzey. Both are conservative Republicans.
Susan Wright was the favorite and the leader in polls. She won the most votes in the primary, in which Ellzey barely finished second, just 354 votes ahead of the leading Democrat. In addition, Wright had the endorsement of former president Trump.
But Ellzey won the race by a margin of 53-47.
How did he do it? It must have helped that Ellzey had the backing of key Texas Republicans. Among them were former Gov. Rick Perry, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, and Joe Barton who represented the district in Washington until a sex scandal forced him out. However, Sen. Ted Cruz endorsed Wright.
Ellzey is a graduate of the Naval Academy, He served as a fighter pilot, doing tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq. From 2012 to 2018, he was a commissioner of the Texas Veterans Commission. He was elected to the state legislature last year. In 2018, he ran a close race against Ron Wright for the same House seat he won this time around.
Although Trump endorsed his opponent, Ellzey did not run as an anti-Trump candidate. Even so, the fact that he pulled off an upset victory over the Trump-endorsed candidate can be viewed as evidence that the ex-president’s influence among Republicans is waning, at least in this particular Texas district.
Trump’s team doesn’t see it that way. It blames the Club for Growth for inducing Trump to back a low-energy candidate against a proven vote-getter.
I should also note that there was no Democrat in the runoff race. Many Democrats simply stayed home — turnout for this election half of what it was for the primary. However, some Dems voted, and it’s likely that Ellzey fared better than Wright with this cohort.
But Mark Davis, a conservative talk show host in Dallas said:
The Trump base in District 6 paid little attention to the fact that Susan got his endorsement. They know that Trump had no familiarity with her and no familiarity with this race.
When, for whatever reason, the Trump base pays little attention to a Trump endorsement, that’s evidence of a loss of influence.
The Sixth District includes suburbs of Dallas/Fort Worth. Trump’s endorsements probably carry greater value in more rural districts. But any sign of waning Trump influence among Republican voters has some significance and, from my perspective, is good news.
Dominion I’m sure
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You may want to check just to make sure you are sure.
This was absolutely a local race. Others are coming in and letting the Twattersphere and media set a narrative that is laughable on its face if anyone bothered to just look.
1. Ellzey isn’t a “Never-Trumper”. He’s a State Representative with a Conservative voting record. He had the support of Rick Perry and Joe Barton who represented this area for years. He also ran for and almost won this seat outright on his own against Ron Wright.
2. He raised a million dollars more than Susan Wright.
3. Trump actually never really campaigned. Hard for Wright beyond doing two E-events.
Now to set the record straight from the Qtards:
4. Texas doesn’t use Dominion machines. Every time your queer Hoft preferred candidate doesn’t win, doesn’t mean you get to yell “dominion” like a magic talisman.
https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/dominion-d-suite-5.5-a.pdf
5. The media was devastated because the GOP locked the Democrats out of the general election. This became a R vs R general and the combined GOP voting share in the primary was 62%. THIS should be the narrative as the 62% was a huge improvement from November 2020.
6. Hardly anyone voted in the general and the drop off has to be Democrats staying home. There were 78000 votes in the primary. Less than 40000 votes in the general. Wright won 15000 votes in the primary, and got 18000
Votes in the general. Ellzey got 10000 votes in the primary and 20000 in the general. Harrison, Castro, Wood and Ballantine (Republicans) had more than 18000 votes between them. Their voters alone would be more than Ellzeys addition.
The moron class let’s the media set the narrative and falls for their trap every time.
I get a bad feeling from the guy. I’ll bet in no time he will be hanging around with the RINOs.
The vote totals don’t support that theory.
It’s pretty clear the Harrison, Castro, Ballantine and Wood voters largely preferred Ellzey over Wright.
All shes saying is learn actual facts before you start spouting the Q nonsense. Texasgurl is awesome, maybe you should pay more attention to what she posts, you and others might then find yourselves better informed.
Hinderaker is not like that. It’s unclear to me where Hayward and Johnson stand, although Hayward hobnobs with all the establishment people.
If I don’t see a picture of a MAGA Hat wearing candidate, no vote for that candidate. Easy.
Read closer, my post has nothing to do with that, it’s about the Dem media who controls your info
Trump didn’t back Sessions, and what happened?
It’s not so much who President Trump SUPPORTS as it is who he DOESN’T SUPPORT.
What I’m wondering is, short of a Biden induced diversionary hot war caused by a cyber breach, who will be Vice-President when President Trump is soon sworn in via a Writ of Quo Warranto?
It better not be the Vice-Backstabber Judas Pence.
(Thinking PCAP - look it up or watch here: https://rumble.com/vkgqhl-pcaps-for-fashion-models-explaining-packet-captures-to-a-non-tech-crowd.html)
Familiarize yourselves with PCAP = Packet Capture. It’s going to be Frontpage news very soon.
The media is trying to set a narrative after the fact here, they went largely silent after the Democrats got locked out of the general.
They want to make it seem like Ellzey got elected because of Democrats, when in reality nothing close to that happened at all.
I read a lot of their stuff and while I find their legal analysis usually spot on and I really respect that aspect of Powerline, but when it comes to their political analysis, they have a lot of work to do. But on your advice I will pay more attention to Hinderaker
The DNCMedia are absolutely giddy about this!
Trump just shrugs and says, “Hey, ya win some, ya lose some.”
What the DNCMedia doesn’t say, is another Republican—not democrat—is going to Washington.
Re: 42 - I won’t use the term “moron class”, but believe that zany, out-of-this-world conspiracy theories are brought forth in common culture by disrupters, including on FR. Then when people act in a certain manner, some in the media and others are there to document the comments and behavior.
Case in point is the alleged CIA vs. military firefight in Germany regarding servers. Look at how that took hold on FR.
Texas is kind of funny when it comes to Trump. He’s not as loved here by Republicans as in other states, maybe it’s the Bush factor.
There are people who still think that’s the case.
She won my county (Navarro).
ping
wishful thinking by lefturd loons
“Ellzey won because he had Rats voting for him over Wright.”
Exactly. There were no Rats running in this election, just a Rino and a Trumpster and the Rats voted for the Rino.
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