据决策台总部预测，共和党人克里斯·戈贝尔将在得克萨斯州第10选区击败民主党人凯特琳·鲁尔克。戈贝尔将接替得克萨斯州共和党众议员迈克尔·麦考尔。
Chris Gober (R) is projected to defeat Caitlin Rourk (D) in Texas’s 10th District, according to Decision Desk HQ. Gober will succeed Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas).
现年64岁的麦考尔曾任众议院外交事务委员会主席，在国会山工作二十多年后即将离开国会。
McCaul, the 64-year-old former chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is departing Congress after more than two decades on Capitol Hill.
戈贝尔毕业于哈佛法学院，曾在乔治·W·布什前总统任期内担任司法部法律政策办公室顾问。
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Gober worked as a counsel in the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice (DOJ) during former President George W. Bush’s tenure.
离开司法部后，戈贝尔曾在共和党全国委员会和全国共和党参议员委员会工作。
After leaving the DOJ, Gober worked at the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
之后他进入私营法律行业，曾短暂重返政坛，担任得克萨斯州共和党参议员特德·克鲁兹2016年总统竞选的总法律顾问，该竞选未获成功。
He then entered the private legal sector, briefly returning to politics as general counsel for Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign.
戈贝尔随后与科技大亨埃隆·马斯克结盟，担任这位万亿富翁的“美国政治行动委员会”的首席律师。该委员会花费了数亿美元支持特朗普总统的2024年竞选。
Gober then aligned himself with tech mogul Elon Musk, as the chief lawyer of the trillionaire’s America PAC. The committee spent hundreds of millions in support of President Trump’s 2024 campaign.
在竞选活动中，戈贝尔承诺降低生活成本、确保边境安全，并“保护”其选区的农村农场和牧场。
On the campaign trail, Gober vowed to lower the cost of living, secure the border and “protect” rural farms and ranches in his district.
这个稳固的共和党第10选区去年经州议员重新划分后基本保持不变，包括休斯顿和奥斯汀的郊区。鲁尔克是陆军预备役成员，曾在戴尔科技公司通信部门工作。
The safely red 10th District, which was left mostly unchanged after state lawmakers redistricted last year, includes suburbs of Houston and Austin. Rourk is a member of the Army Reserve who worked in the communications division at Dell Technologies.