Losing Texas Candidate Issues Warning: 2022 ‘Could Be Major Setback’ for Democrats

Losing Texas Candidate Issues Warning: 2022 ‘Could Be Major Setback’ for Democrats
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 19, 2021. Graeme Jennings/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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A Democratic candidate who lost her bid during last weekend’s Texas congressional special election sounded the alarm that the 2022 midterms “could be a major setback” for the Democratic Party.

During the special election, two Republicans—and no Democrats—advanced in the runoff as the top two vote-getters in the race for Texas’s 6th Congressional District, after no one in the 23-candidate field won an outright majority of votes on May 1.

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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