A special election to replace the only member of Congress who died after contracting covid-19 could be the first substantive look at the Biden-era political landscape.
Arlington Republican Rep. Ron Wright, who had won a second term last November, died on February 7 just two weeks after being hospitalized with covid-19 (Wright had lived for several years with lung cancer).
That leaves his Dallas-Fort Worth area district vacant, and Gov. Greg Abbott has set May 1 as the date for the contest to succeed him. Under state law, all candidates will compete on the same ballot and the top two,…
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