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Joe McDaniel
Joe McDaniel (Republican Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 7. He lost in the Republican primary on March 5, 2024.
Biography
McDaniel graduated from Baylor University and attended Columbia Seminary. His professional experience included being a business owner, and serving on the board of organizations like Gregg County Boys and Girls Club and the Tyler Homeless Coalition.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 7
Incumbent Jay Dean defeated Marlena Cooper in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 7 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jay Dean (R) | 74.2 | 59,056 |
 | Marlena Cooper (D)  | 25.8 | 20,520 | |
| Total votes: 79,576 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 7
Marlena Cooper advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 7 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marlena Cooper | 100.0 | 3,379 |
| Total votes: 3,379 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 7
Incumbent Jay Dean defeated Joe McDaniel and Bonnie Walters in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 7 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jay Dean | 72.0 | 15,629 |
 | Joe McDaniel | 22.9 | 4,973 | |
| Bonnie Walters | 5.1 | 1,115 | ||
| Total votes: 21,717 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for McDaniel in this election.
2022
See also: Texas' 1st Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 1
Nathaniel Moran defeated Jrmar Jefferson in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Nathaniel Moran (R) | 78.1 | 183,224 |
 | Jrmar Jefferson (D) | 21.9 | 51,438 | |
| Total votes: 234,662 | |||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 1
Jrmar Jefferson defeated Victor D. Dunn in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 1 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jrmar Jefferson | 75.9 | 5,607 |
 | Victor D. Dunn | 24.1 | 1,783 | |
| Total votes: 7,390 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 1
Jrmar Jefferson and Victor D. Dunn advanced to a runoff. They defeated Stephen Kocen and Gavin Dass in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 1 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jrmar Jefferson | 45.5 | 7,411 |
| ✔ | | Victor D. Dunn | 27.9 | 4,554 |
 | Stephen Kocen | 15.1 | 2,457 | |
 | Gavin Dass | 11.5 | 1,881 | |
| Total votes: 16,303 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Rosey Quinn (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 1
Nathaniel Moran defeated Joe McDaniel, Aditya Atholi, and John Porro in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 1 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Nathaniel Moran | 63.0 | 51,312 |
| Joe McDaniel | 24.2 | 19,708 | |
 | Aditya Atholi | 7.6 | 6,186 | |
 | John Porro | 5.2 | 4,238 | |
| Total votes: 81,444 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Joe McDaniel did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Joe McDaniel did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
McDaniel's campaign website stated the following:
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The first and only criteria that will matter to me as your representative is this: is it good for East Texas? That might mean that I buck the party leadership. It might mean that I make a few big money people angry who are accustomed to buying their influence. If it’s not right for East Texas, then it won’t get my vote or my support.
God gives us the right to protect and defend ourselves. The 2nd Amendment protects us from a government that would try to take that away. East Texans use guns to protect our families. This is very simple: no one anywhere in our federal government has any business telling East Texans how to manage our guns.
America is a free country. People belonging to a vaccine hesitancy group is nothing new. It's not anyone's business if someone is vaccinated or not. Your body is your body. No one should put anything in your body that you don’t want in your body. That shouldn’t be controversial at all.
Killing an unborn as a tool for birth control will never be acceptable to me. Abortion is murder. Every pregnant woman calls her baby a baby and talks to her baby while in the womb. Let’s stop pretending it’s not a living human being.
We suffer inflation today in part because the government has over-maxed out its credit card. If we have to live within our means, so should the government. That’s just common sense.
Without spying on us, the government should act to protect our freedoms on the Internet. I will always support free speech.
“Like birds hovering overhead, the Lord Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it and deliver it, he will ‘pass over’ it and will rescue it.”” Isaiah 31:5 NIV
As Biden destroys our economy, he hurts your family. This fight is personal and I won’t back down from getting the government off your back.
Unchecked government spending and a Federal Reserve printing hundreds of billions of dollars a month have caused inflation to get away from us. It's time to stop the madness!
We need safer neighborhoods, which starts with support of the family and support of our good peace officers who protect our streets. I also wholeheartedly support our veterans. God bless the families of our first responders and military.
Why do social media companies get to dictate what we can and cannot say online? Silicon Valley's power has gone unchecked for too long.
Too many have been allowed across our border without knowing who they are or what their intentions might be. Enforcing existing border law is right and Democrats are completely wrong. Finish the wall. Secure the border.
Per the 10th Amendment, education is the jurisdiction of Texas – not the federal government. I will fight to get D.C. out of Texas classrooms.
One person, one vote. That’s common sense. Knowing that every vote comes from a valid voter is essential to our future.
Trump had it right and Biden has it wrong. America must be energy independent. The federal government and the EPA should be constrained and allow Texas to do what Texas does best: drill and produce oil/gas to once again gain independence.
Again, the federal government has no business in Texas classrooms. Neither does a racist curriculum, which is what CRT is.
All people, regardless of race, deserve to have equal opportunity in this country. It's time our diverse district elected a uniter, not a divider. We are all fighting for a better America.
The government is constituted to protect your life, liberty, and property. That’s the proper order. It shouldn’t be that we have to fight that government to protect our life, liberty, or property.
Permanently reducing taxes can only happen once we ween the government off it's all-you-can-eat cash buffet. Politicians, regardless of party, have shown they are willing to spend our county into oblivion. Not me!
The idea that California or New York have any say in how Texans manage their lives is absurd. We not only need to take back the House in DC, we need to shrink its footprint on our lives here in East Texas.
We are sick and tired of ineffective, lazy career politicians in D.C. No one should serve more than 12 years in office. [2] |
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| —Joe McDaniel[3] | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Joe McDaniel's campaign website, "Meet Joe," accessed January 12, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Joe McDaniel's campaign website, “Issues,” accessed January 12, 2022
