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Beto O’Rourke
D
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616,350 votes | 91.6% |
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Joy Diaz
D
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20,232 votes | 3.0% |
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Michael Cooper
D
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19,970 votes | 3.0% |
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Rich Wakeland
D
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8,176 votes | 1.2% |
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Inocencio Barrientez
D
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7,870 votes | 1.2% |
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Greg Abbott (i)
R
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866,587 votes | 67.9% |
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Allen West
R
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151,378 votes | 11.9% |
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Don Huffines
R
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143,272 votes | 11.2% |
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Chad Prather
R
|
44,944 votes | 3.5% |
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Rick L. Perry
R
|
40,717 votes | 3.2% |
More @ The Hill….
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) looks headed for a primary runoff, the Texas Tribune reports.
“In a field of four candidates, not enough Texas Republican primary voters appear convinced that the two-term incumbent should remain the Republican’s candidate for the job. That could put the embattled attorney general on the defensive in the biggest fight of his political life.”
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Results: TX SoS | DDHQ | AP (via NPR)
11:00PM: AG Update: Bush has pulled into second place by about 2.5 points over Guzman. Paxton will almost certainly face one of them in the runoff.
10:58PM: Cisneros is now slightly above 50% again in TX-28 D. Starr and Zapata Counties in South Texas are still totally out, though.
10:55PM: We’re still waiting on election day votes in much of the state. Montogmery has 66 of 111 reporting. Still nothing in Harris. Luttrell is still leading in TX-8 with 53.21%.
10:24PM: Cisneros is now under 50% in TX-28 D. On the R side, Cassy Garcia is ahead by about 18 points of third place Ed Cabrera in the AP count (9 in the lagging DDHQ count), so she will head to the runoff. Whether it will be Whitten, Cabrera or Fowler who will join her is still up in the air.
10:05PM: Dan Patrick has received the winner’s checkmark from DDHQ in the LG race.
10:01PM: Abbott has received the winner’s check from the AP in the Republican governor’s race.
10:00PM: George Bush has surged into a close second in the AG’s race, 190,915 to 190,295 in the NPR/AP Count. All the other major races are more or less the same….
Big night for Trump in Texas. All 33 of his endorsed candidates either either won outright or were substantially leading in what will likely be a runoff.
And hopefully we have heard the last from GOP thought leader, Louie Goemert.
Ah Z?
Last night in Texas, Republicans easily renominated their entire statewide ticket except for AG Ken Paxton, who will head for a runoff with Land Commissioner George P. Bush. Dawn Buckingham will head into a runoff for Land Commissioner with a wide lead, and her opponent was not clear by the end of the night. In the House, all Republican incumbents won easily except for TX-3 Rep. Van Taylor, who ended the night just below 50%, which would set up a runoff with Keith Self. Nathaniel Moran, Morgan Luttrell, Monica de la Cruz, Mayra Flores, and Wesley Hunt comfortably won open-seat nominations in TX-1, TX-8, TX-15, TX-34, and TX-38, respectively, while TX-28 will head to a runoff between Cassy Garcia …….
RRH…..
Harris County, Texas, Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria (D) resigned on Tuesday after multiple mishaps marred this month’s primary elections.
“Ultimately, the buck stops with me,” Longoria said, the Houston Chronicle reported. “Now, we have a real opportunity to have a hard but necessary conversation in order to solve the problems for future elections and further bolster elections administration.”
She will officially step down on July 1 after she was asked to resign by Republicans and Democratic County Judge Lina Hidalgo….
More…
More problems from the Texas primary….
The crazy shit is the lawmakers in Red states want to ‘run’ elections….
Texas Flagged 27,000 Primary Ballots for Rejection
“More than 27,000 mail ballots in Texas were flagged for rejection in the first test of new voting restrictions enacted across the U.S., jeopardizing votes cast by Democrats and Republicans alike and in counties big and small,” the AP reports.
“It puts the rate of rejected mail ballots in Texas on track to significantly surpass previous elections.“