Texas GOP Speaker Race Tensions

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Texas GOP civil war reaches bruising climax with leadership battle

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The Texas GOP is embroiled in a heated battle for the state House Speaker seat.

It pits state Rep. Dustin Burrows , a conservative Republican who helped author bills dramatically restricting the authority of cities, against David Cook .

Burrows has enlisted Democrats in a rebellion against the far-right faction that now controls the state GOP .

If Cook wins it will be the first time in more than a decade that a candidate from the right wing of the Texas GOP claimed the Speakership .

The winning Speaker candidate needs 76 of the chamber’s 150 votes to win when the Texas House votes on a new leader in mid-January .

Democrats are already thinking about what their price should be.

Donald Trump Jr. last month waded in to back Cook , blasting “so-called Republicans cutting a deal with liberal Democrats ”.

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