The next speaker of the Texas House will come from the majority party, whether that’s the Republicans or the Democrats after the election. But there’s an outside chance the parties will have the same number of members.
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Kamala Harris to make campaign stop in Texas
Harris will be the highest-profile representative from the Biden campaign to visit Texas in person during the general election.
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He had a state-issued voter ID and says he still got flagged casting his ballot
Mike Wright says nothing made sense, and even the poll workers couldn’t explain it. But like millions of Texas voters this cycle, Wright says he was determined to cast his ballot. Listen in the weekend edition of The Brief podcast.
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Texas’ massive early voting numbers have persisted, leading to predictions of overall turnout unseen in years
Experts are predicting that as many as 12 million people could vote in Texas this year.
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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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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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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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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.
