Michael Egan
Michael Egan (Republican Party) (also known as Mike) ran in a special election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 6th Congressional District. He lost in the special general election on May 1, 2021.
Egan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Michael Egan was born in Washington D.C. He served in the U.S. Army from 2004 to 2013.[1] Egan earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 2003. In 2015, he received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Egan’s career experience includes working as a vice president at JPMorgan Chase. He also worked on former President Donald Trump’s (R) transition team and was later appointed to a post in the Department of Defense under the Trump administration.[2]
Elections
2021
See also: Texas' 6th Congressional District special election, 2021
General runoff election
Special general runoff election for U.S. House Texas District 6
Jake Ellzey defeated Susan Wright in the special general runoff election for U.S. House Texas District 6 on July 27, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jake Ellzey (R) | 53.3 | 20,873 |
 | Susan Wright (R) | 46.7 | 18,293 | |
| Total votes: 39,166 | |||
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General election
Special general election for U.S. House Texas District 6
The following candidates ran in the special general election for U.S. House Texas District 6 on May 1, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Susan Wright (R) | 19.2 | 15,077 |
| ✔ | | Jake Ellzey (R) | 13.8 | 10,865 |
 | Jana Lynne Sanchez (D) | 13.4 | 10,518 | |
 | Brian E. Harrison (R) | 10.8 | 8,485 | |
 | Shawn Lassiter (D) | 8.9 | 6,973 | |
 | John Castro (R) | 5.5 | 4,321 | |
 | Tammy Allison (D) | 5.4 | 4,240 | |
 | Lydia Bean (D) | 3.7 | 2,923 | |
 | Michael Wood (R) | 3.2 | 2,509 | |
 | Michael Ballantine (R) | 2.8 | 2,225 | |
 | Daniel Rodimer (R) | 2.7 | 2,088 | |
 | Daryl Eddings (D) | 2.1 | 1,654 | |
 | Michael Egan (R) | 2.0 | 1,544 | |
 | Patrick Moses (D) | 1.5 | 1,189 | |
| Manuel Salazar (D) | 1.4 | 1,120 | ||
 | Sery Kim (R) | 1.1 | 889 | |
 | Travis Rodermund (R) | 0.6 | 460 | |
 | Adrian Mizher (Independent) | 0.4 | 351 | |
 | Brian Stephenson (D) | 0.3 | 271 | |
 | Phil Gray (L) | 0.3 | 265 | |
 | Matt Hinterlong (D) | 0.3 | 252 | |
 | Jenny Garcia Sharon (R) | 0.2 | 150 | |
| Christopher Suprun (D) | 0.1 | 102 | ||
| Total votes: 78,471 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Montgomery Markland (R)
- Asa Palagi (R)
- Katrina Pierson (R)
Campaign themes
2021
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Michael Egan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Egan's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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After my service, I went on to earn my MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where I graduated with honors. In 2016, I also served on the Trump Presidential Transition Team, with a focus on national security, before relocating to Texas with my wife and three young sons. I am currently a Vice President at JP Morgan Chase.
I’m proud to have devoted years of my life to protecting the people of Texas and the USA. I’m running for Congress because I’m a tested leader called to serve my fellow Texan in the fight to take back Congress and restore the conservative, all-American ideals passed down by our nation’s founders and preserved by generations of patriotic men and women in uniform.
- I’m a fighter and a patriot, not a career politician: At a time when Democrats control both house of Congress and the White House, the people of Texas’ 6th Congressional District deserve a proven fighter and leader, not another career politician. I might be new to elected politics, but I’m a battle-tested veteran when it comes to standing up for America and conservative values.
- Our unifying, patriotic American values are under assault. In Congress, I will be relentless in their defense. Under Nancy Pelosi’s leadership, Democrats are working to undermine the basic American and Constitutional values that once bound together a nation, despite party differences. But ahistorical teachings popular among the far-left and coastal elites such as “critical race theory” and “defund the police” are designed to undermine the intellectual roots of American democracy and patriotism. I will never cease to defend American Exceptionalism and the patriotic principles that make us the envy of the world.
- I will protect small businesses and American workers from threat foreign and domestic. I am not afraid to stand up to China's economic aggression which has wreaked havoc and our nation's working class. I am certainly not afraid to stand up to the Democrats and their out-of-touch elite supporters seeking to destroy the oil and gas sector and other businesses through burdensome taxation and job-killing regulation.
1. Economic Opportunity: Economic policies, such as tax cuts and deregulations, designed to strengthen small businesses and working and middle-class Americans.
2. Gun Rights: Defending the Constitutional right to bear arms. A principle vital to the defense of our nation and our families.
3. Freedom of Religion: Protecting people of faith from the ongoing anti-religious assault by secular elites.
4. Veterans: Honoring the commitment we make to our fighting men and women once they return home and are discharged from their service.
5. Property Rights: Defending American landowners from government land grabs and Constitutionally questionable uses of eminent domain.
6. No Iran Nuclear Deal: Donald Trump did a great thing for America, its regional allies, and lovers of freedom and democracy the world over a favor when he ended the calamitous Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA). I will work to ensure that the Iran Deal stays dead, and the Ayatollah never again receives an airplane filled with American money that can be used to fund terror around the world.
2. COURAGE: Courage is not that should be confined to the battlefields. Too often conservatives have been let down by their representatives in Washington because they lacked the political courage to take on the tough fights and risk upsetting special interests or losing votes. I have the courage to always put my constituents and my values first, even if if means jeopardizing my own career or my standing among Washington elites.
My goal is not to be the most famous Congressman. My goal is not to be the Congressman with the most air time on Fox News. I do not aspire to have my name on the fanciest bills or buildings.
I am running because I truly believe I have what it takes to make life better for the people of the 6th District. By remaining relentless in my defense of the Constitution and my pursuit of a more perfect union, rooted in conservative principles, I pray that years from now, citizens of this district will be able to point to victories big and small that helped make their lives better in some tangible way.
For too long, our politicians and our businesses were content to view China as a 'paper tiger' and cozy up the Communist regime in an effort to access China's massive, growing consumer market.
However, it is not clear that China does not merely aspire to be a leading economy. Rather, they seek to impose their anti-democratic agenda on the rest of the world and usurp American global leadership.
This is a threat not only to our Asian allies, but our American ideals, and more urgently, American workers.
To many politicians, even those starting with good intentions, become corrupted by self-interest and access to power, and lose sight of their true obligations. Frequent elections forces candidates back home to face the constituents who not only elected them, but pay their salaries.
He and I served together in the Old Guard, the elite regiment responsible for performing funeral services for our military heroes and guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Then, and now, I was impressed by his potent mix of patriotism, intelligence, and willingness to take on the toughest fights. In the House, and now in the Senate, these traits have made him a leading conservative champion, despite his relatively junior tenure.
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Mike Egan for Congress, "About Mike Egan," accessed April 28, 2021
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 16, 2021
