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Texas House Speaker Survives Challenge From Hard Right
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan won renomination in a runoff election on Tuesday, surviving a fierce Republican primary bid by a party activist and first-time candidate backed by former President Donald J. Trump and his Texas supporters. The race in a southeast Texas district that includes part of the city of Beaumont was a bitter…