The Republican party dominated races up and down the ballot, dashing Democrats’ high hopes. Our analysis sheds light on what happened.
2020 elections
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Texas 2020 Elections
Analysis: Texas voters elect to stay the course
If you’re going by the numbers of Republican and Democratic winners, nothing really happened in the general election in Texas this year. But there’s a lot beneath the numbers.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Masks, lines and clear skies: Photos from Election Day in Texas
Photographers for The Texas Tribune spent Election Day (and much of the night) capturing the experience of casting votes in a pandemic.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Democrats hoped high turnout would usher in a blue wave across Texas. It didn’t.
In Texas, at least 66% of the 17 million registered voters cast ballots in the 2020 general election. That’s 6.6 percentage points higher than total turnout in 2016.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Joe Biden’s struggles along the Texas border raise questions about Democrats’ outreach there
Democrats once again won a large number of counties along or near the Texas-Mexico border, but by narrower margins than in recent elections. That showing played a big role in disappointing results for the state’s Democrats.
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TribCast: What a bad night for Texas Democrats means for the future
In this week’s episode, Matthew talks to Ross, Abby and Patrick about Democrats falling short of their goals for Texas and the latest on the race for state House speaker.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Texas Republicans fighting off Democrats in battleground congressional races
Several Republican wins in U.S. House races came near the end of an election cycle in which Texas was the centerpiece of a Democratic offensive.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Texas Republicans decline to condemn President Trump’s premature declaration of victory while votes are still being counted
Texas’ top Republican congressional leaders are mostly staying silent after President Donald Trump prematurely and falsely declared victory early Wednesday morning as votes continue to be counted in multiple battleground states, including Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Republicans appear to keep majority of Texas House
Texas Republicans appeared to have fended off a well-financed Democratic effort to gain a majority in the Texas House.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Analysis: Texas voters still fly a red political flag
Texas Republicans might not be able to do everything their most ardent partisans would like, but Tuesday’s election left them in the driver’s seat in what remains a GOP-controlled state government.
