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Republican Congressman Ron Wright dies weeks after testing positive for COVID-19

republican congressman ron wright of,texas,has died due to complications from covet,19.,the 67 year old announced he'd tested,positive for the virus,on january 21st he died sunday at baylor,hospital,his wife susan continues to battle the,illness there,in a statement wright's congressional,office said the congressman,was also fighting cancer adding that he,died peacefully with his wife by his,side,congressman wright represented texas's,6th congressional district,since 2019. for more let's bring in the,texas tribune's washington bureau chief,abby livingston abby welcome thank you,very much for joining us,congressman wright and his wife were,both diagnosed with coronavirus but,the congressman had other health issues,what can you tell us,absolutely he has been in a long long,battle with lung cancer,almost since the time he came to,congress he's only this was only the,beginning of his second term so he,really,had yet to make his mark as a member,although he had been a long time capitol,hill staffer in the past,well you've described ron wright as a,fixture of the local political scene,especially in tarrant county which,includes fort worth tell us a little,about his backstory,and how he came to congress,well he was a top staffer to a,congressman named joe barton who had,been a long long,time congressman who left in a bit of,scandal several years ago,and so congressman wright ran and,eventually succeeded him in congress but,he'd also been the state,excuse me the tax assessor collector in,tarrant county um and had been on the,city council in a,very large city that most people don't,know much about called arlington,this is where the cowboys and the ranger,stadiums are,and so he's been very well known and i,think there's a lot of grieving in,tarrant county tonight,you know as you know congressman wright,was in his second term,in the house it's obviously very early,but you know there are a lot of,decisions that are going to be made in,washington here in the coming weeks,uh including on economic relief for,americans do we have any information,abby on what will become of texas's,sixth district seat,well this could become a nationalized,special election we don't know quite yet,congressman wright won and ran by about,eight and nine points in the last two,cycles,but democrats have been threatening this,district they have not fully,resourced their candidates who've been,running um but this is the kind of,district that they've been able to turn,over in a special election and so it,could become a very interesting race,uh should democrats fully invest,yeah i mean what does this have the,potential to look like given what we saw,you know what we've seen recently in the,state of texas in particular,we kept hearing about this quote unquote,blue wave,but what could this potentially look,like here,well this is the story of texas and this,is the story of the larger congressional,battleground across the country which is,arlington is a very urban environment,tarrant county is effectively the,bellwether county of texas the way,tarrant county goes uh is usually the,way texas goes but it's even been,trending even more democratic than the,rest of the state in the last two cycles,but you extend down past arlington and,you start getting into some very rural,areas where donald trump is very popular,and so the upper hand is undoubtedly,with republicans,and we still don't even know how,seriously the democrats are going to,challenge this seat,but this is one where republicans were a,little anxious about last fall,and had wondered um if democrats had put,more money behind it could ron wright,have been in more trouble,and so uh this is this is going to be a,fascinating race and i think uh,to um i think it may it could become,interesting on the scale of,say conor lamb's race in pennsylvania,which uh was,of subject to fascination i guess in,2017 and so,uh this is our first real test special,election to see which way the winds are,blowing uh,nationally this cycle,yeah as you point out a great deal of,interest in what's happening there in,texas,abby livingston for us abby thank you,very much,thank you

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