Hagenbuch won the primary in a district vacated by former Sen. Drew Springer, R-Muenster.
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Hagenbuch, a transportation executive and former U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps officer, secured the nomination Tuesday after finishing with 36% in the March 5 primary. Yarbrough, a conservative activist and Air Force veteran, was close behind in that initial round, taking 34% in the four-candidate field.
Both candidates pitched themselves as rock-solid conservatives who would support the state’s continued rightward drift on everything from abortion to guns to immigration. Yarbrough’s supporters included the tea party groups True Texas Project and Grassroots America, and their respective leaders, Julie McCarty and JoAnn Fleming. Also backing him were Kyle Rittenhouse, the right-wing activist famously acquitted of killing two Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020; incoming Dallas County Republican Party Chair Allen West, who previously led the Texas GOP; retiring state Rep.
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