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Brehm lost a 2015 bid for [[mayor]] of San Antonio and a 2017 race for the District 8 seat on the San Antonio City Council.  

Brehm lost a 2015 bid for [[mayor]] of San Antonio and a 2017 race for the District 8 seat on the San Antonio City Council.  

In the four-candidate field for county chairman, Mark Dorazio was not a candidate for a full-term in the primary held on March 6, 2018, but remained the Precinct 3091 chairman..<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Cynthia_Brehm|title=Cynthia Brehm|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=January 22, 2018}}</ref> Other candidates in the primary were Dwight Parscale (the father of [[Donald Trump]] campaign manager [[Brad Parscale]]), who had lost the interim election to Dorazio, and finished the primary with 21 percent of the ballots cast. JoAnn Ponce Gonzalez (23 percent), a former agent with the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms who carried considerable business support, entered the May 22 runoff with Brehm. Andres Holliday trailed in fourth place with the remaining 11 percent of the vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/06/heres-how-five-most-interesting-local-texas-primaries-turned-out/|title=Here's how six of Texas' most interesting local primaries turned out: Bexar County Republican Party Chair|publisher=''The Texas Tribune''|author=Rishika Dugyala|date=March 7, 2018|accessdate=March `12, 2018}}</ref> Brehm defeated  Ponce Gonzalez, in the runoff contest with nearly 70 percent of the ballots cast.<ref name=facebook>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/CynthiaBrehmTx/|title=Cynthia Brehm|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=March 16, 2020}}</ref><ref name=scandal>Gilbert Garcia, "GOP chair faces backlash over husband's scandal" (commentary), ''The San Antonio Express-News,'' May 27, 2018, p. A2.</ref>  

In the four-candidate field for county chairman, Mark Dorazio was not a candidate for a full-term in the primary held on March 6, 2018, but remained the Precinct 3091 chairman..<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Cynthia_Brehm|title=Cynthia Brehm|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=January 22, 2018}}</ref> Other candidates in the primary were Dwight Parscale (the father of [[Donald Trump]]'s  former campaign manager [[Brad Parscale]]), who had lost the interim election to Dorazio, and finished the primary with 21 percent of the ballots cast. JoAnn Ponce Gonzalez (23 percent), a former agent with the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms who carried considerable business support, entered the May 22 runoff with Brehm. Andres Holliday trailed in fourth place with the remaining 11 percent of the vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/06/heres-how-five-most-interesting-local-texas-primaries-turned-out/|title=Here's how six of Texas' most interesting local primaries turned out: Bexar County Republican Party Chair|publisher=''The Texas Tribune''|author=Rishika Dugyala|date=March 7, 2018|accessdate=March `12, 2018}}</ref> Brehm defeated  Ponce Gonzalez, in the runoff contest with nearly 70 percent of the ballots cast.<ref name=facebook>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/CynthiaBrehmTx/|title=Cynthia Brehm|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=March 16, 2020}}</ref><ref name=scandal>Gilbert Garcia, "GOP chair faces backlash over husband's scandal" (commentary), ''The San Antonio Express-News,'' May 27, 2018, p. A2.</ref>  

Six months into her tenure as chairman, Brehm was jolted when the Democrats, led by [[Beto O'Rourke]] in his [[liberal]] challenge to [[U.S. Senator]] [[Ted Cruz]], and [[Lupe Valdez]], in her long-shot bid against Governor g Abbott, swept Bexar County in the mid-term election held on November 6, 2018.  

Six months into her tenure as chairman, Brehm was jolted when the Democrats, led by [[Beto O'Rourke]] in his [[liberal]] challenge to [[U.S. Senator]] [[Ted Cruz]], and [[Lupe Valdez]], in her long-shot bid against Governor g Abbott, swept Bexar County in the mid-term election held on November 6, 2018.