{"id":310273,"date":"2026-05-27T05:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310273\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:13:07","slug":"bauman-wins-gop-runoff-for-district-16-sets-november-race-against-rep-escobar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310273\/","title":{"rendered":"Bauman wins GOP runoff for District 16, sets November race against Rep. Escobar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Former Border Patrol agent Adam Bauman defeated Manuel Barraza in the Republican runoff for Congressional District 16, according to unofficial results called by the Associated Press. <\/p>\n<p>Bauman received nearly 70% of the early votes, with Barraza taking 30% of the votes. <\/p>\n<p>Bauman will now face Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar in November. Escobar, who is seeking her fifth term, ran unopposed in the March Democratic primary. <\/p>\n<p>District 16 covers most of El Paso County. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-election-results-for-2026-may-primary-runoff?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso election results for 2026 May primary runoff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/election-day-us-representative-district-16-march-2026-primary?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Election Day: U.S. Representative District 16 March 2026 primary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Former Border Patrol agent Adam Bauman defeated Manuel Barraza in the Republican runoff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-310273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}