Candidate for El Paso municipal court dies from COVID-19

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El Paso, Texas, municipal court runoff candidate Lillian Blancas died Monday due to COVID-19.

The 47-year-old El Paso County magistrate judge had been in the hospital for almost a month, according to friends and family. It was her second time in the hospital because of the virus, which has hit the Texas border city particularly hard.

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