Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan wins GOP primary runoff, fending off challenger backed by Trump

AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan won his primary runoff Tuesday to a survive a wave of party turbulence in America’s biggest red state, and anger from the right over last year’s impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Phelan's victory stopped a push from the hard right to force him out of his leadership role in the state's dominant party, but a shakeup in the Texas Capitol could still lay ahead. Phelan presided over votes that enacted some of the toughest anti-abortion laws in the country, vastly expanded gun rights, supported Gov. Greg Abbott’s highly visible anti-immigration platforms and curtailed LGBTQ+ rights.

He was first elected in 2020 and easily won again in 2022, but the state Republican Party sanctioned him over a voting record that highlighted an independent streak. That included support for protecting same-sex marriage and for new gun-safety laws following the 2022 Uvalde school shooting, in his district, that left 21 people dead.Herrera, a gun manufacturer and gun-rights activist, was second with nearly 25% of the vote in a five-way primary in March to force the runoff.

More than 100 polling stations in Dallas, Kaufman, Ellis and Tarrant counties were without power early in the day. Dallas County extended voting by two hours to 9 p.m., and a judge in Kaufman County, where workers set up generators at several polling stations, ordered voting to remain open until 8 p.m. Many Texas counties allow voters to vote at any open polling station.

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