Republican state Rep. Justin Holland is facing a challenge from former tea party activist Katrina Pierson.
The state’s Republican leaders back Pierson, a former Trump spokeswoman, while Holland banks on his deep ties to District 33.
The result is a Holland-Pierson showdown that has taken a lead role in an increasingly bitter struggle for supremacy within the state’s Republican Party, with ultraconservatives leading an effort to oust incumbents seen as weak on priority issues like school choice. Pierson, 47, led Holland in the March 5 primary, 39.5% to 38.7%, in a three-candidate race for a district that includes Rockwall County and part of Collin County.Pierson has been staging meet and greets with voters and held two large rallies featuring Abbott. She told The News it’s time for Holland to go.
Abbott also criticized Holland for voting to raise the age limit to buy assault-style weapons from 18 to 21, an unsuccessful bill pushed mainly by Democrats after the massacre at Robb Elementary in Uvalde. Holland said he supported the bill to make gun policy consistent. The age to purchase and carry a pistol is 21.House District 33 Republican candidate Katrina Pierson and Gov.
In May she told supporters at the Fish N’ Tails restaurant in Rowlett that she was dubbed the “tea party darling,” particularly for how she framed issues during television appearances. Pierson also told supporters at Fish N’ Tail that Texans needed to secure elections because liberals were trying to make gains.“I like what she says about school choice,” he said at Pierson’s Rowlett event.
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