Douglas Haggard

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Douglas Haggard

Republican Party

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March 3, 2020

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Douglas Haggard (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 22nd Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on March 3, 2020.

Haggard completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2020

See also: Texas' 22nd Congressional District election, 2020

Texas' 22nd Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Republican primary)

Texas' 22nd Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 22

Troy Nehls defeated Sri Preston Kulkarni and Joseph LeBlanc in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 22 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Troy Nehls (R)	51.5	210,259
		Sri Preston Kulkarni (D)	44.6	181,998
		Joseph LeBlanc (L)	3.9	15,791

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 408,048
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Republican primary runoff election

Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 22

Troy Nehls defeated Kathaleen Wall in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 22 on July 14, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Troy Nehls	69.9	36,132
		Kathaleen Wall	30.1	15,547

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 51,679
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 22

Sri Preston Kulkarni defeated Derrick Reed, Nyanza Moore, and Carmine Petricco III in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 22 on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Sri Preston Kulkarni	53.1	34,664
		Derrick Reed	24.7	16,126
		Nyanza Moore	14.5	9,449
	Submit photo	Carmine Petricco III	7.8	5,074

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 65,313
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Chris Fernandez (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 22

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 22 on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Troy Nehls	40.5	29,583
✔		Kathaleen Wall	19.4	14,201
		Pierce Bush	15.4	11,281
		Greg Hill	14.1	10,315
		Dan Mathews	3.0	2,165
	Submit photo	Bangar Reddy	1.6	1,144
		Joe Walz	1.4	1,039
	Submit photo	Shandon Phan	1.1	773
		Diana Miller	1.1	771
		Jon Camarillo	1.0	718
		Douglas Haggard	0.5	398
		Howard Lynn Steele Jr.	0.4	283
		Matt Hinton	0.4	274
	Submit photo	Brandon Penko	0.1	96
		Aaron Hermes	0.1	92

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 73,133
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Schell Hammel (R)
• Keli Chevalier (R)
• Clint Morgan (R)
• Felicia Harris Hoss (R)

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 22

Joseph LeBlanc advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 22 on March 21, 2020.

		Candidate
✔		Joseph LeBlanc (L)

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Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Douglas Haggard completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Haggard's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Long Time Resident of TexCong22 - since 1991. Oldest of Nine children, learned responsibility early. Former Prosecutor for Harris County and Chief Prosecutor for Misdemeanor and District Courts. UH Graduate, BA in History. Juris Doctorate with Honors, South Texas College of Law. Dean's List. Junior Chamber of Commerce, Outstanding Young Men. Texas Assoc. of Defense Counsel Award for Scholarship and Advocacy in Civil Litigation. Who's Who of Houston. Marquis Who's Who in America. Marquis Who's Who in American Law. Almost a decade in representing Petroleum Companies as In-House Counsel for Phillips Petroleum Company and Shell Oil Company. Taught Criminal Justice courses at the University of Houston, Downtown and was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law Center. In High School in 1964, I formed a Young Republicans group and I was told most earnest that, if "Au H2O" won, we would shortly be fighting a land war in Asia. I have been a PADI Scuba Instructor for 30 years and love Coral Reef Environment diving. My personality lends me toward pursuing justice and the older I get, the more I appreciate what Plato wrote in "Republic" : "Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Pro Domestic Business Policies: by continued deregulation and also by tax incentives for companies that return or come Onshore with manufacturing (and US jobs) and Targeted Tariffs if they don't.
• Smaller federal government: by, to begin with, "Abolishment" of such Departments as Education, Energy and Agriculture. That's a good start. After "The Abolishment", surviving departments must cut 5% of their budget the first year and 1% each year for the next 10 years, except for the Defense and Homeland Security Departments. Balanced Budget Amendment with a Line Item Veto for POTUS. Repeal the Income Tax Amendment and enact a federal sales tax that is itemized on all bills, receipts and invoices so people can see the cost of government.
• Stop Illegal Immigration: by building a proper stone wall and not this dandified fence that can be cut through with Home Depot electric hand tools. We need to amend the 14th Amendment by deleting the "Birthright Citizenship" and making it the citizenship of the mother. We need to make "illegal immigration with a child" an aggravated immigration crime with appropriate additional punishment and not one to which attaches additional benefits on the perpetrator.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Breaking up this out of control federal government and putting the federal beast back into its Constitutional Cage, probably by an Article V Constitutional Convention. Reducing the tax burden on the American Taxpayer. J

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Campaign website

Haggard’s campaign website stated the following:

“	Douglas Haggard supports: Continued Deregulation of Business – Remove the Harness Off Our Backs Targeted Tariffs – Return Lost Manufacturing and Jobs Smaller Federal Government – Aggressive Elimination of Unnecessary and Bloated Federal Bureaucracy Constitutionally Mandated Balanced Budget – Retire the National Debt Repeal of the Federal Income Tax – Institute Itemized Federal Sales Tax Restore Traditional Law Enforcement To Communities In Need – Traditional Types of “Patrol” Common Sense Immigration Policies – Stop the Flood of Illegal Immigrants	”
—Douglas Haggard

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Footnotes

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Texas' current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

John Cornyn (R)

Ted Cruz (R)

Representatives

District 1

Nathaniel Moran (R)

District 2

Daniel Crenshaw (R)

District 3

Keith Self (R)

District 4

Pat Fallon (R)

District 5

Lance Gooden (R)

District 6

Jake Ellzey (R)

District 7

Lizzie Fletcher (D)

District 8

Morgan Luttrell (R)

District 9

Al Green (D)

District 10

Michael McCaul (R)

District 11

August Pfluger (R)

District 12

Craig Goldman (R)

District 13

Ronny Jackson (R)

District 14

Randy Weber (R)

District 15

Monica De La Cruz (R)

District 16

Veronica Escobar (D)

District 17

Pete Sessions (R)

District 18

Vacant

District 19

Jodey Arrington (R)

District 20

Joaquin Castro (D)

District 21

Chip Roy (R)

District 22

Troy Nehls (R)

District 23

Tony Gonzales (R)

District 24

Beth Van Duyne (R)

District 25

Roger Williams (R)

District 26

Brandon Gill (R)

District 27

Michael Cloud (R)

District 28

Henry Cuellar (D)

District 29

Sylvia Garcia (D)

District 30

Jasmine Crockett (D)

District 31

John Carter (R)

District 32

Julie Johnson (D)

District 33

Marc Veasey (D)

District 34

Vicente Gonzalez (D)

District 35

Greg Casar (D)

District 36

Brian Babin (R)

District 37

Lloyd Doggett (D)

District 38

Wesley Hunt (R)

Republican Party (27)

Democratic Party (12)

Vacancies (1)