U.S. House • District 27

Tanya Lloyd

Democrat

Lloyd 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."

Michael Cloud

Republican

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.

Dan McQueen

Independent

McQueen 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.