A Texas congressional seat that has been vacant since February will be filled today.
Susan Wright and Jake Ellzey are squaring off in the runoff in Texas' 6th Congressional District for the right to succeed Wright's late husband, Ron Wright.
In an interview with KRLD News, Wright listed her top three issues that she will focus on, should she win today's election.
"Number one, hands down, is border security," Wright says. "The second thing is going to be the economy, people want to get back to work full speed; and the third thing is local control for their education."
Border security was also the first priority that Ellzey listed.
"Drugs coming across the border -- 90% of the heroin coming across the border," Ellzey says. "Gang members coming across the border, illegal weapons coming across the border, and sick people coming across the border."
The 6th District includes Ellis and Navarro counties, as well as southeastern Tarrant County.
Wright and Ellzey are both Republicans; so no matter who wins today's runoff, the seat will remain in Republican hands.
KRLD asked the two to distinguish themselves from the other, given the fact that both represent the same political party.
Ellzey talked about showing respect to others.
"I got appointed to attend to the United States Naval Academy, (and I) lived under an honor code that is very important to me and always has been," Ellzey says. "I'm a Reagan Republicans who believes in being a positive voice for our conservative values and not speaking ill of other candidates."
Wright pointed to her 30 years of experience in public service.
"That gives me experience with constituent services, I'm district director for state representatives," says Wright. "It gives me experience with policy; I'm on the state board for the Republican Party in my third term. It gives me experience and ready to go with my community-based work with different agencies and service organizations."
Of the almost 500,000 registered voters in the 6th District, more than 20,000 of them cast ballots in the five days of early voting last week.
Polls are open Tuesday from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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