Who Michael is
He ran a small media company, directed communications at a church in Victoria, and won a special election to Congress in 2018. He's been in Washington ever since.
About Michael
Cloud graduated from Oral Roberts University, where he ran cross country and track, before building a media business in South Texas. A member of the House Freedom Caucus board of directors, he sits on the Appropriations Committee and the House DOGE Committee.
Where they stand
- Corruption & DemocracyDisagree
- Taxes & Cost of LivingDisagree
- Public EducationDisagree
- Health CareAgree
- Freedom, Family & FaithDisagree
- Immigration & Border SecurityAgree
- Public Safety & JusticeAgree
- Energy & EnvironmentAgree
Also running for U.S. House • District 27
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Tanya LloydLloyd grew up on 45 acres outside Lockhart in a house her family built with their own hands, went back to school at 33 to become a teacher, and has spent nearly twenty years in the poorest classrooms in rural Texas. Her line: it's hard to pull yourself up by your bootstraps "when you only have flip-flops."
About Tanya
She's a kindergarten teacher in Lockhart ISD today. Before teaching she worked at car dealerships, in accounting and in real estate; a high-risk pregnancy showed her how thin health care gets for women out here. She's running on what she calls an American Rural Revival — the rural hospitals closing, the schools starved of funding, the cost of just living — against a four-term Republican, Michael Cloud, who's voted with the party line since a 2018 special election.
Dan McQueenMcQueen was elected mayor of Corpus Christi in 2016 and quit 37 days later in an explosive Facebook post, after being embroiled in controversy after controversy — unpaid taxes, a college degree that didn't check out, and a $61,000-a-year chief-of-staff job he handed to his live-in girlfriend.
About Dan
A Navy veteran and contractor from Nueces County, he made an unsuccessful run for Congress in a different district in 2022, and is on the ballot this time as an independent. He has no campaign website.