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Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls, a Republican, defeated Democrat Sri Preston Kulkarni, a former diplomat, in the Houston-area U.S. House seat left open by retiring Rep. Pete Olson, according to the Associated Press. It was Kulkarni’s second attempt at winning the district after narrowly losing to Olson, R-Sugar Land, in 2018. His race against Nehls was defined in part …

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