In Houston, Hillary Clinton celebrates a win in Nevada and sets her sights on Texas, a firewall in her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Abby Livingston
Abby Livingston joined The Texas Tribune in 2014 as the publication's first Washington bureau chief, and departed August 2022. In this role, she covered members in the Texas congressional delegation and campaigns back in the home state. A seventh-generation Texan, Abby grew up in Fort Worth and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to the Tribune, Abby worked for NBC, CNN, National Journal and Roll Call. At the Tribune, she won the 2017 National Press Club Award for Washington regional reporting and the Society of Professional Journalists' 2018 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington correspondence. Abby is a contributing writer to the Almanac of American Politics and frequently appears on MSNBC, CNN and Sirius XM radio. She also had a role on an episode of "The Bold and The Beautiful." In keeping with the Trib’s great history of hiring softball stars, Abby is a three-time MVP (the most in game history) for The Bad News Babes, the women’s press softball team that takes on female members of Congress in the annual Congressional Women’s Softball breast cancer charity game.
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Jeb Bush Suspends Presidential Campaign
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a native Texan, suspended his presidential campaign after a disappointing finish behind the top three contenders in the GOP South Carolina primary.
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Cruz Betting Big on South Carolina’s Upstate
In all, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has attended or held 16 events in Greenville, S.C. The only other campaign destination in that ballpark is Des Moines, where he attended at least 21 events during his 10-month courtship of Iowa.
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A Scrambled Race to Replace Ruben Hinojosa
An open-seat U.S. House race is sure to draw a packed field, and nine candidates — six Democrats and three Republicans — are aiming to succeed 10-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Hinojosa in the 15th district.
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TedTracker: Follow Ted Cruz on the Campaign Trail
Use our updated TedTracker to check the public events — past and future — Ted Cruz has announced since since launching his campaign for president.
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Congressional Race Could Pit Lubbock Against Abilene
The eight-candidate race to succeed U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Lubbock, in Texas’ 19th Congressional District could morph into a fight between two cities well in advance of the 2021 redistricting process.
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Cruz is Target of Fierce Attacks at GOP Debate
Real estate magnate Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio savaged U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to his face on national television Saturday night, with each going so far as to accuse him of lying.
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Clinton Picks Up Another Texas Superdelegate
With early voting in Texas just four days away, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced she’d picked up a handful of Texas endorsements ahead of the state’s March 1 Democratic presidential primary.
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Congressional Black Democrats Unload on Bernie Sanders
All four black Texas congressional Democrats went to bat in a big way Thursday for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton amid her increasingly hostile nomination fight with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont.
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Cruz Trails in New Hampshire GOP Pack
A week after his win in the Iowa caucuses, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was jockeying for third place in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, finding himself among a pack of also-rans swamped by real estate magnate Donald Trump.
