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Brent Beal
Brent Beal (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 1st Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the Democratic primary on March 3, 2020.
Beal ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 1st Congressional District in 2018. Shirley McKellar defeated Beal in the Democratic primary on March 6, 2018.
Biography
Brent Beal lives in Nacogdoches, Texas. Beal’s career experience includes working as a business professor at the University of Texas at Tyler.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Texas' 1st Congressional District election, 2020
Texas' 1st Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Democratic primary)
Texas' 1st Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 1
Incumbent Louis B. Gohmert Jr. defeated Hank Gilbert in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 1 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Louis B. Gohmert Jr. (R) | 72.6 | 219,726 |
 | Hank Gilbert (D) | 27.4 | 83,016 | |
| Total votes: 302,742 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 1
Hank Gilbert advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 1 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Hank Gilbert | 100.0 | 25,037 |
| Total votes: 25,037 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Brent Beal (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 1
Incumbent Louis B. Gohmert Jr. defeated Johnathan Davidson in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 1 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Louis B. Gohmert Jr. | 89.7 | 83,887 |
 | Johnathan Davidson | 10.3 | 9,659 | |
| Total votes: 93,546 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 1
Incumbent Louis B. Gohmert Jr. defeated Shirley McKellar and Jeff Callaway in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 1 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Louis B. Gohmert Jr. (R) | 72.3 | 168,165 |
 | Shirley McKellar (D) | 26.3 | 61,263 | |
 | Jeff Callaway (L) | 1.4 | 3,292 | |
| Total votes: 232,720 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 1
Shirley McKellar defeated Brent Beal in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 1 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Shirley McKellar | 61.0 | 9,181 |
| Brent Beal | 39.0 | 5,858 | ||
| Total votes: 15,039 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 1
Incumbent Louis B. Gohmert Jr. defeated Anthony Culler and Roshin Rowjee in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 1 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Louis B. Gohmert Jr. | 88.3 | 64,004 |
 | Anthony Culler | 9.0 | 6,504 | |
 | Roshin Rowjee | 2.7 | 1,955 | |
| Total votes: 72,463 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Brent Beal did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Brent Beal participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on February 27, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Brent Beal's responses follow below.[2]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) economic development |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | I'm passionate about immigration reform (among other things). I support meaningful immigration reform that affirms our commitment to welcoming immigrants into this country in a safe and orderly manner. Congress should act immediately to pass a “clean” Dream Act to protect the millions of young people who came here as infants and children with their parents.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[4]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Brent Beal answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
| “ | I look up to politicians (regardless of party) that do their best to represent the interests of everyone in their communities and strive to find public policy solutions that improve the lives of everyone they represent.[4] | ” |
| “ | Three books (that I've read relatively recently and have shaped some of my thinking): American Nations: A History of the Eleven Regional Cultures of North American, by Colin Woodard; Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, by Arlie Russell Hochschild; and Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty. Although I read it a while ago, I would also have to add Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow to this list.[4] | ” |
| “ | A willingness to serve and a willingness to listen to (and to represent) everyone in their community.[4] | ” |
| “ | In my professional life, I'm a business professor. I teach strategic management to MBAs and I research the connection between how we teach in business schools and income inequality. Applying this experience will help to make me a successful officeholder.[4] | ” |
See also
2020 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Brent Beal for Congress, "About Brent," accessed January 22, 2018
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Brent Beal's responses," February 27, 2018
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
