U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-San Antonio, had a healthy second-quarter campaign fundraising haul, reporting a total of $458,000 raised from April to June.
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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Amid Low Expectations, Perry Revels in Campaigning
After years in the political wilderness, Rick Perry relied on his trademark swagger while campaigning on the Fourth of July weekend in southern New Hampshire.
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New Hampshire Republicans Not Ruling Perry Out
New Hampshire Republicans are showing up to hear Rick Perry’s second presidential campaign pitch. But attendance isn’t commitment among New Hampshire’s high-maintenance, fickle electorate.
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Perry: It’s GOP’s Duty to Reach Out to Black Voters
Former Gov. Rick Perry took his case for the GOP presidential nomination to the nation’s capital Thursday, arguing that it is the Republican Party’s moral and historical duty to court black voters.
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7 Things We Learned From Cruz’s New Book
His father’s youthful misguided allegiance to Fidel Castro, the overdose death of a half-sister and blunt observations on Congress and fellow Republicans are all contained between the covers of a memoir released as Ted Cruz runs for president.
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Ted Cruz: “I Thought That Popularity Was the Holy Grail”
In his new memoir — and in an interview with the Tribune — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz talks about how his “cocky” nature has tripped him up in the past, and what he learned from getting passed over for a senior spot in George W. Bush’s administration.
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Cruz, Rove Spar Over Bush Endorsement in AG’s Race
Ted Cruz is digging in his heels in an increasingly bitter spat with Karl Rove, a longtime adviser to Texas’ most famous family in politics — a family now fielding former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush against Cruz in the 2016 presidential race.
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Texans on Campaign Trail, in Washington React to Gay Marriage Ruling
Texas politicians on the Potomac and on the presidential trail reacted along anticipated partisan lines to Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing gay marriage.
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Tea Party Not Bagging Texas Congressional Seats
The GOP’s Tea Party wing has made serious inroads into Texas state offices, but the movement has come up short when it comes to congressional elections, failing to field candidates with serious chances of ousting incumbent U.S. House members.
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Trade Clears Senate Hurdle, Despite Cruz Pulling Support
Despite Sen. Ted Cruz’s eleventh-hour change of heart on the biggest vote since he became a presidential candidate, the U.S. Senate cleared a major procedural hurdle Tuesday that will likely give President Obama the authority to negotiate the largest trade deal in American history.
