Republicans into Texas runoff after robocall claims leader killed husband with Covid

Endorsed by Trump, Susan Wright decries immoral' attack and heads into sixth-district runoff against another Republican

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Susan Wright, the widow of the Republican congressman whose death prompted a special election in Texas on Saturday, made the runoff after reporting to law enforcement a bizarre robocall in which she was accused of murdering her husband by contracting Covid-19.

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