Jake Ellzey, right, has defeated Susan Wright, left, in the race to replace the late Congressman Ron Wright in the U.S. House.
In what the Texas Tribune is calling “a major upset,” Texas state Rep. Jake Ellzey of Waxahachie has defeated fellow Republican Susan Wright in a special election runoff to replace Wright’s husband, U.S.
Rep. Ron Wright in Congress. Ellzey ended the evening with 53 percent of the vote, compared to Wright’s 47 percent Ron Wright, the Republican from Arlington who had represented Texas’ 6th Congressional District since 2019, died Feb.
7 this year after a battle with COVID-19. Ellzey, a U.S. Navy veteran, and Susan Wright earned their place in Tuesday’s runoff by being the top two vote-getters out of 21 candidates from