Clint Dorris
Clint Dorris (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 12th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on March 5, 2024.
Dorris completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Clint Dorris served in the U.S. Army from 1989 to 2003. He earned a bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University in 1998 and a graduate degree from the University of Texas in 2004. [1]
Elections
2024
See also: Texas' 12th Congressional District election, 2024
Texas' 12th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Republican primary)
Texas' 12th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 12
Craig Goldman defeated Trey Hunt in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 12 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Craig Goldman (R) | 63.5 | 215,564 |
 | Trey Hunt (D)  | 36.5 | 124,154 | |
| Total votes: 339,718 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 12
Craig Goldman defeated John O'Shea in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 12 on May 28, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Craig Goldman | 62.9 | 16,787 |
 | John O'Shea | 37.1 | 9,903 | |
| Total votes: 26,690 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 12
Trey Hunt defeated Sebastian Gehrig in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 12 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Trey Hunt | 58.0 | 11,935 |
 | Sebastian Gehrig | 42.0 | 8,638 | |
| Total votes: 20,573 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 12
Craig Goldman and John O'Shea advanced to a runoff. They defeated Clint Dorris, Shellie Gardner, and Anne Henley in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 12 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Craig Goldman | 44.4 | 31,568 |
| ✔ | | John O'Shea | 26.4 | 18,757 |
 | Clint Dorris | 14.9 | 10,591 | |
 | Shellie Gardner | 7.6 | 5,373 | |
| Anne Henley | 6.8 | 4,849 | ||
| Total votes: 71,138 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ryan Catala (R)
- Montgomery Markland (R)
- Kay Granger (R)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Dorris in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Clint Dorris completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Dorris' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Decorated Combat Veteran & Helicopter Pilot. Clint is passionate about veterans affairs. Awarded a Bronze Star for actions during Desert Storm when serving as an enlisted soldier on a six-man airborne Army Ranger team conducting covert operations across enemy lines. As an Apache helicopter pilot, he earned Top Gun at first gunnery, outperforming pilots with thousands more hours of experience.
- Innovative Cost Cutter & Respected Problem Solver. As a young aerospace engineer, Clint received NASA’s prestigious Silver Snoopy award for solving a complex cargo problem that slashed costs by hundreds of millions of dollars. And working for the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, he led the rapid acquisition and financial resource management of a $10 billion counterterrorism portfolio, noted as solving numerous complex technology needs and saving the lives of countless service members in Afghanistan.
- Authority on National Security. Because of his track record in counterterrorism and intelligence, Clint was hand-selected to serve as a Deputy Director at United States Space Force, working with the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer to lead a small team of highly motivated experts to solve one of the nation’s most critical national security threats posed by China.
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Campaign website
Dorris’s campaign website stated the following:
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TRULY SECURING AMERICA'S BORDERS The cartels are now a proxy for China to enact an invisible war against our nation by killing 100,000 Americans a year with Chinese-supplied fentanyl materials. I know from my time in military intelligence and covert operations, that we have the capability to secure our border and take on the cartels, we just need people in place with the fortitude to do so. PROTECTING AMERICA AND OUR FUTURE As a former member of an Army Ranger six-man covert ops team, an Apache helicopter pilot, and former two-star general equivalent in the Trump-established United States Space Force, I’m prepared to deliver the critical leadership we need to meet and defeat these challenges for a free and strong American future. I’ve fought the cartels in Mexico, Central and South America. I’ve fought the terrorists across the globe, and I’ve fought China’s advance towards space and cyber superiority over the United States. STOP THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT Additionally, Congress needs to write legislation that begins the departure of the headquarters of all of the executive branch departments and agencies from Washington, D.C., and relocation out into the rest of America. As long as the headquarters of these departments are staffed by people who live in the D.C. bubble, we will never see Executive Branch organizations that reflect the values and principles of America. EXPAND GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL OUR FAMILIES We also need a wholesale review of every regulation that is masquerading as a law. Everyone focuses on executive orders, but the larger problem is the thousands of regulations that are enforced like they are laws. These regulations overburden our industry and stifle good-paying jobs for America. AMERICAN ENGERGY INDEPENDENCE IS CRITICAL Given the increasing threats China poses to our power grid, we must make changes to harden the grid from cyber and physical attacks. Our goal must be to have abundant, affordable, and reliable energy that serves as a driver of economic and manufacturing growth for our nation. PRO-LIFE IS PRO-AMERICA FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS ARE FUNDAMENTAL THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED The Biden Administration has allowed terrorists into our country since the fall of Afghanistan and facilitated them coming across the southern border – the murderous Hama attack in Israel highlighted the brilliance of our Founding Fathers to ensure an armed populace could have a fighting chance to protect itself and made me appreciate our Constitution even more.[2] |
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| —Clint Dorris’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 13, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Clint for Congress, “Issues,” accessed January 20, 2024
