Experts are predicting that as many as 12 million people could vote in Texas this year.
Texas 2020 Elections
Texans are poised to set a record for voter turnout with Tuesday’s election. Voters are casting ballots in a litany of races, from president and U.S. Senate to seats in the Texas House. Watch live election results come in here, and check out what you need to know here. If you see an issue while voting, let us know about it here.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Should you trust political polls going into the 2020 election? That’s the wrong question.
Watch The Texas Tribune’s co-founder and executive editor, Ross Ramsey, break down what voters need to ask when considering a poll’s results.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Analysis: Money counts in Texas elections, but timing matters, too
MJ Hegar’s challenge of U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has attracted millions of dollars in financial support, most of it late in the race. She’s now in better financial shape than the incumbent, but time is running short.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Donald Trump and Joe Biden sparred over Texas’ energy industry and global warming during final presidential debate
In debating a major Texas industry, Trump emphasized economic priorities while Biden advocated for alternate means of energy besides oil and gas.
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MJ Hegar raised nearly three times as much as John Cornyn in the first two weeks of October
Hegar also expanded her cash-on-hand advantage in the U.S. Senate race in Texas.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Voters in Harris County may continue using drive-thru voting, Texas Supreme Court rules
A last-minute challenge by the Republican parties of Texas and Harris County argued the largely Democratic county’s new drive-thru polling places were illegal.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t require masks at polling places. It’s made some voters uncomfortable.
Polling locations are one of Abbott’s 11 exemptions to his statewide mask mandate that went into effect July 3. Abbott said at the time that the exemption is meant to prevent people from being turned away at the polls just because they don’t have a mask, though he has also recommended that people wear them.
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Why Asian American voters in Texas may hold outsized importance in key races this year
Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial or ethnic voting group in the country, according to the Pew Research Center. And in Texas, there are sizable Asian American communities in key districts.
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Texas 2020 Elections
National Democrats are increasingly assertive about their chances in Texas this election — and they’re spending accordingly
In a move of confidence that Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Lizzie Pannill Fletcher will be reelected, a national PAC is redirecting ad spending from that district to a nearby open seat currently held by a Republican.
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John Cornyn confronts late spending spree by MJ Hegar, Democratic allies in reelection campaign
Cornyn’s once-massive cash-on-hand advantage is gone, and outside Democratic groups smell blood with less than two weeks left in his re-election campaign.