The latest 2018 Texas U.S. Senate Election news from The Texas Tribune.
The faraway 2020 presidential election is already underway, and it's got a distinct Texas air to it, with Democratic Party rising stars Julián Castro of San Antonio and Beto O'Rourke of El Paso deciding whether to run. Full Story
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The Texas congressman, fresh off a loss in a U.S. Senate race, is on almost everyone's list of potential Democratic presidential candidates. It's not his resume that put him on those hotlists. Full Story
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Post-election campaign finance reports came out Thursday in the U.S. Senate race. Full Story
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Voter turnout in the 2018 Texas midterm elections increased by 18 percentage points compared with the previous midterms, according to data from the United States Elections Project. Full Story
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The super PAC, Texas Forever, was set up in a way so that it did not have to disclose its donor before Election Day. Full Story
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Former Obama aides have encouraged the outgoing Democratic House member to make a White House run. The recent meeting was the first signal that the former president is getting personally involved in talks with the Texas congressman. Full Story
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The State Republican Executive Committee approved a budget Friday that includes a $150,000 salary for Texas GOP Chairman James Dickey. Full Story
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U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, said at a town hall in El Paso Monday that he and his wife had "made a decision not to rule anything out." Full Story
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Texas Democrats and Republicans are already gearing up for an action-packed election cycle. Full Story
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The Republicans at the top of the statewide ballot in Texas won their elections this year, but it was the state's least-populated and most-ignored counties that put them over the top. Full Story
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Two years ago, Beto O'Rourke was a little-known congressman from El Paso and Ted Cruz's re-election was considered a foregone conclusion. Then everything changed. Full Story
It was the closest a Democrat came to toppling a Republican incumbent U.S. senator since 1978. And while O'Rourke beat Cruz in some traditional GOP strongholds, it wasn't enough to overcome rural Texas counties and some suburbs that remain fiercely loyal to Cruz. Full Story
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Historic turnout, unusually tight races and a "blue wave" that didn't quite break. Full Story
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Republicans won every statewide office in Texas, as they have in every election for the past 20 years. But Democrats are taking heart in their narrow losing margins. Full Story
It was a tighter race than the Republicans or the Democrats initially expected, but in the end, Ted Cruz won another six years in the U.S. Senate over Democrat Beto O'Rourke. Full Story
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, defeated U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, after an intense campaign battle that drew national attention. Full Story
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The race between Cruz and O'Rourke emerged as one of the hottest in the country, with Democrats hopeful that O'Rourke could break the Texas GOP's iron grip on statewide offices. Full Story
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From abortion to immigration, here are some of the issues Texas voters said mattered most to them in the U.S. Senate race. Full Story
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From the intense battle between Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke to hard-fought, well-funded races lower on the ballot, what happens on Election Day could reset — or reaffirm — the trajectory of Texas politics. Full Story
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A hotly contested U.S. Senate race and an expanded congressional battlefield attracted a flood of super PAC spending to Texas in the general election. Full Story
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