{"id":2254728,"date":"2024-05-28T23:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T03:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-house-speaker-survives-primary-after-ag-paxtons-revenge-tour\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T23:52:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T03:52:35","slug":"texas-house-speaker-survives-primary-after-ag-paxtons-revenge-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-house-speaker-survives-primary-after-ag-paxtons-revenge-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas House speaker successfully navigates primary despite Attorney General Paxton&#8217;s retaliatory actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-house-speaker-survives-primary-after-ag-paxtons-revenge-tour%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2254728&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses Texas House \u200dSpeaker Da&#8230; [Read more on Washington Examiner&#8217;s website] The article\u2063 covers \u2062the survival of Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan in the primary \u200celection \u200bdespite challenges from \u200bwithin\u200c his own \u2064party. For further details, you can \u2063find the full article on the Washington Examiner&#8217;s website. The article delves into Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan&#8217;s victory in the primary election despite opposition from his party. For more information, the full article is available on the Washington\u2064 Examiner&#8217;s website.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Texas<\/a> House Speaker Dade Phelan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3019159\/four-things-watch-texas-runoff-primary-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>survived his primary challenge<\/a> on Tuesday, paving the way for another term as one of the state\u2019s top legislators despite efforts from those in his own party to oust him from his position. <\/p>\n<p>Phelan narrowly defeated former Orange County Republican Party Chairman David Covey after garnering 50.7% of the vote to Covey\u2019s 49.3% with nearly all the ballots counted. <\/p>\n<p>Phelan\u2019s victory comes despite receiving fewer votes than Covey during the state\u2019s primary in March, which catapulted the pair into a runoff after neither candidate secured more than 50% of the vote. The victory also comes after state Attorney General Ken Paxton endorsed Phelan\u2019s challenger after the House speaker oversaw Paxton\u2019s impeachment trial last year. <\/p>\n<p>Although Phelan had the support of former state House speakers Dennis Bonnen and Joe Straus, as well as former Gov. Rick Perry, the House speaker has faced pushback in recent months from members of his own party. Phelan was censured by the Texas Republican Party because of his vote to impeach Paxton, marking only the fourth time in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-democrats-urge-biden-to-keep-chicago-prosecutor-probing-corrupt-pols\/\" title=\"Top Democrats Urge Biden to Keep Chicago Prosecutor Probing Corrupt Pols\">state history<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccp-speaker-pelosi-visiting-taiwan-violates-chinese-territorial-integrity\/\" title=\"CCP: Speaker Pelosi visiting Taiwan violates Chinese territorial integrity\">sitting speaker<\/a> has been censured. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phelan was also targeted for his \u201cpresent\u201d vote on Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-things-to-watch-in-texas-runoff-primary-elections\/\" title=\"Key Points to Monitor in Texas Runoff Primaries\">signature school voucher program<\/a> that ultimately failed. Abbott vowed to oust the lawmakers who opposed the program, which would have allowed the state to give money to families to pay for private schooling. <\/p>\n<p>Phelan\u2019s victory comes after months of contention, with the race becoming one of the most expensive runoffs in the 2024 cycle. Both candidates spent roughly a combined $5.4 million throughout their campaigns, which excludes money spent by outside groups.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan emerged victorious in the primary, securing his position as a key lawmaker despite internal party opposition. Phelan clinched a close win over David Covey, the former Orange County Republican Party Chairman, with 50.7% of the votes, setting the stage for another term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2640,"featured_media":2254729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24062044273678-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24062044273678-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}