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Did Joe Walsh successfully win his Congress campaign in 1996?

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The answer is no, Joe Walsh did not successfully win his congressional campaign in 1996. He was running for a congressional seat in Illinois, but lost in the Republican primary to incumbent Henry Hyde. Walsh would later go on to win a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives in 2012 and would later serve as a U.S. Representative from 2011 to 2013.
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