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Article snippet: Rep. MORE during the 2016 election after earning his endorsement. Roby defeated former Rep. Bobby Bright, a Democrat-turned Republican whom she unseated in 2010. The AP called the race around 9:30 p.m. ET. With all precincts reporting by 10:30 p.m., Roby led Bright by 68-32 percent. Roby was forced into the runoff with Bright after failing to clinch the 50 percent needed in the June GOP primary. The four-term congresswoman has continued to face Republican backlash since declaring in 2016 she wouldn’t vote for Trump in the wake of the “Access Hollywood” tape scandal where the then candidate was heard bragging about kissing and groping women without consent. But Roby went into Tuesday’s runoff favored to win especially after President Trump endorsed her last month and key Washington allies ran ads on her behalf. She also heavily outraised and outspent Bright. Roby has sought to come back from her Trump criticism as a fervent supporter of the president’s agenda, voting with him 96.5 percent of the time, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis. Outside groups also spent on behalf of Roby to boost her ahead of the runoff. The influential business-friendly U.S. Chamber of Commerce went up on the air, spending nearly $200,000 on ads that in part criticized Bright for his past support for Pelosi as speaker. And Winning For Women, a GOP group that backs female candidates who support free-market policies and national security, started running five-figure digital ads for Ro... Link to the full article to read more