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Texas Election Results: First Congressional District
Texas Statewide Results
Updated 35m ago
89% REPORTED
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Candidate | Party | Votes | Pct. | |
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| Louie Gohmert*Winner | Republican | 218,385 | 72.6% |
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| Hank Gilbert | Democrat | 82,359 | 27.4 |
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| Total reported | | 300,744 | |
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* Incumbent
89% of the estimated vote total has been reported.
We received 339 additional votes from Texas.
Gilbert
Gohmert
300,744 votes reported
Estimated votes remaining
WASHINGTON — East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, insisting the election has been stolen from President Donald Trump, has urged like-minded supporters to...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert sees ‘revolution’ as option in face of ‘cheated election’
East Texas tea party congressman stokes Trump backers' anger by invoking Egyptian uprising and U.S. War of Independence.
WASHINGTON — East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, insisting the election has been stolen from President Donald Trump, has urged like-minded supporters to consider “revolution” like the Egyptian uprising seven years ago and colonial America’s revolt against England.
“They rose up though all over Egypt, and as a result of the people rising up in the greatest numbers in history, ever anywhere, they turned the country around …. If they can do that there, think of what we can do here,” he told thousands of cheering Trump supporters in downtown Washington at Saturday’s “Million MAGA March.”
The tea party Republican was one of a number of speakers at a plaza near the White House, where demonstrators waving flags and Trump banners readily agreed that Trump should not concede.
“This was a cheated election and we can’t let it stand,” said Gohmert, a Tyler Republican and former trial judge who easily won a ninth term this month.
President-elect Joe Biden collected 77 million votes, the most of any candidate in U.S. history and 5 million more than Trump. His projected 306-232 victory in the Electoral College is the same as Trump’s projected margin was in 2016, when he lagged challenger Hillary Clinton by 3 million votes. Trump actually wound up winning the electoral vote 304-227 after several electors, including two from Texas, refused to cast their ballots for their party’s candidates.
Major news outlets projected the final outcome nine days ago once Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania became clear. That gave him enough electoral votes to clinch.
But Trump has refused to concede to Biden. Trump did tweet Sunday that “he won” because of alleged fraud, but quickly backpedaled, emphasizing that he had not acknowledged defeat because, in his view, Biden’s victory hinged on disputed results.