\"My goal is to remind people of the basics of what America is about and what we believe,\" Kinzinger said. \"This union is going to fall apart if we're not careful.\"
In Texas, Wood told ABC News he views his special election as the \"first battle for the soul of the Republican Party\" since the 2020 election cycle.
\"It's just going to be one data point in what's going to have to be a very long fight,\" he said.
Anti-Trump Republican running in crowded special election field
In addition to Susan Wright, the widow of the late Rep. Wright, Wood will be on the ballot alongside a number of Republicans who have sought to align themselves with Trump.
Texas state Rep. Mike Ellzey, who came in second to Wright in the 2018 GOP primary, has been endorsed by former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who served as Trump's energy secretary -- and said in a social media video that Ellzey \"has been for America first for a long time.\"
Brian Harrison, a former chief of staff at the Health and Human Services Department under Trump is running under the slogan of \"Always America First.\" His campaign ads are peppered with images of Trump-era Oval Office meetings.
Candidate Sery Kim, who also worked in the Trump administration, recently lost the support of two Korean American House Republicans after comments about Chinese immigrants. She later sued the Texas Tribune for defamation in their reporting of her remarks.
And another candidate, Dan Rodimer, tells voters he wants to \"Make America Texas Again\" in a viral campaign ad where he rides a bull and criticizes Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A former professional wrestler, Rodimer moved to Texas after an unsuccessful run for Congress in Nevada last year.
The race is \"not so much the Trump candidates versus the non-Trump candidates, it's like where's the settling point going to be?\"Jim Henson, the director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin, told ABC News. \"I expect [it] will be somewhere in between.\"
The former president has not endorsed any of the Republicans in the race, according to spokesman Jason Miller.
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