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Q&A: Alexander Hale and Tina Cohen to face off in May Republican runoff for U.S. House District 7

Community Impact Newspaper · May 12, 2026

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Republican voters will choose their nominee for the U.S. House District 7 representative in a May 26 runoff election between Alexander Hale and Tina Cohen.

The Republican race for U.S. House District 7 is one of several contests that advanced to May runoffs after no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the March 3 primary election.

Hale and Cohen were the two highest-performing candidates in the four-way primary race, with Hale securing 45.27% of the vote to Cohen's 26.81%.

The winner of the May 26 runoff will face Democratic nominee and incumbent Lizzie Fletcher for the U.S. House District 7 seat in the November midterm election.

The original version of this election questionnaire was published Jan. 22, ahead of the March 3 primary election. This Q&A was updated to remove the two primary candidates who did not advance to the May 26 runoff, but candidates' answers were not changed from …