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TX-21 Republican nominee?
$31.5K
MAR 10, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Overview
Current roleAttorney
PartyRepublican
Political ideologyConservative Republican
GenderMale
LocationTexas
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BackgroundAttorney
EducationTexas A&M University (B.A.)
Notable personal detailsJames Edwin "Trey" Trainor III is a Republican attorney who served as a commissioner of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) from 2020 to 2025 and served as FEC chair in 2020 and again in 2025. He ran as a Republican candidate for U.S. House in Texas’s 21st Congressional District in the 2026 cycle. He earned a B.A. from Texas A&M University and a J.D. from Texas A&M University School of Law, and he has served in the U.S. Army Reserves.
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Positions
LiberalConservative
Economy & Taxes
Supports cutting taxes, reducing government spending, and deregulation to lower costs for families; favors making Trump-era tax cuts permanent, reopening federal lands for energy production, and repealing what he calls the Biden natural-gas tax.
Immigration & Border
The candidate supports enforcement-first border policies including finishing the border wall, codifying Remain in Mexico, ending catch-and-release, reinstating asylum agreements with Central American countries, defunding sanctuary cities, mandating nationwide E-Verify, and expanding resources and legal authority for ICE and Border Patrol. The campaign frames these actions as making Trump-era immigration policies permanent and imposing consequences on countries that do not accept deported citizens.
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Abortion & Reproductive Rights
The candidate supports personhood for the unborn and seeks to ban abortion with no exceptions, including sponsoring the Life at Conception Act; he also calls to defund Planned Parenthood, end taxpayer funding of abortion, and stop mail-order abortion pills.
Climate & Energy
Opposes aggressive federal climate mandates and supports expanding domestic fossil-fuel production and energy independence. Favors repealing regulations and taxes seen as burdens on energy (including a stated repeal of the Biden natural-gas tax and opening federal lands for drilling), and opposes certain clean-energy incentives near Hill Country aquifers (proposing limits on Inflation Reduction Act credits and DOE guarantees for battery storage projects).
Public Safety & Guns
The candidate opposes most new firearm restrictions and supports expansive Second Amendment protections, including national constitutional carry reciprocity, repeal of certain ATF rules, removal of red‑flag laws, and removing some items from the NFA. The campaign platform also calls for defunding federal efforts to register or confiscate lawful firearms and ending taxes on guns and ammunition.
Polls
TX-21 Republican nominee?
Aggregation source: FiftyPlusOne
Fundraising
Latest report: Cycle 2026Total raisedCash on hand
$151.6K
$113.7K
$75.8K
$37.9K
$0
2026
LatestYear
Total raised
Cash on hand
Total spent
Burn rate
Cycle 2026
$151.6K
$2.8K
$148.9K
$9.9K
Source: FEC
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