Six legislative incumbents were forced into runoffs when a majority of primary voters did not choose them back in March.
- SD27 (D): Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. (49.8%) vs. Sara Stapleton Barrera (36%)
- HD2 (R): Rep. Dan Flynn (45%) vs. Bryan Slaton (36%)
- HD59 (R): Shelby Slawson (46%) vs. Rep. J.D. Sheffield (30%)
- HD100 (D): Rep. Lorraine Birabil (29%) vs. Jasmine Crockett (26%)
- HD142 (D): Rep. Harold Dutton (45%) vs. Jerry Davis (25%)
- HD148 (D): Rep. Anna Eastman (42%) vs. Penny Morales Shaw (22%)
Since 1996, 28 incumbent legislators have been forced into runoffs, and 23 of them have lost. All five who prevailed finished first in the primary election, and four of those finished at least 17 points ahead of their opponent in the primary election. This year, that would include Dutton and Eastman, who respectively have the third and fourth largest margin in the primary over their runoff opponent in 24 years.
Voters in Alabama and Texas go to the polls Tuesday to decide several hotly contested U.S. Senate and House runoffs.Trump features in several Congressional runoffs in the Lone Star State, notably in the 13th Congressional District (Texas Panhandle) where former White House doctor Ronny Jackson -- whom the president tried and failed to install as Veterans’ Affairs secretary in 2018 -- is competing with Josh Winegarner. Jackson has the president’s endorsement. Among Democrats, Greg Sagan will face Gus Trujillo.
In Texas' 17th District (Waco and parts of Central Texas), where incumbent Bill Flores is retiring, both parties are also holding runoffs. Former U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, who rose to Republican leadership during two decades in Congress before losing his Dallas-area seat in 2018, is trying to make a comeback in a different district. Sessions is facing businesswoman Renee Swann. In the Democratic runoff, David Jaramillo will contend with Rick Kennedy.
In Texas' 22nd District (Sugar Land, southwestern Houston suburbs) Republicans will choose between Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls and businesswoman Kathaleen Wall to replace retiring Pete Olson. The winner will face Sri Preston Kulkarni in a fall contest that Democrats have targeted as a pickup opportunity.
In Texas' 23rd District (West Texas, between San Antonio and El Paso), Iraq War veteran Tony Gonzales will square off against Raul Reyes, a builder and retired Air Force officer, in the Republican runoff. Incumbent Will Hurd is retiring. The winner will face Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones, who nearly defeated Hurd in 2018.
In Texas 24th District (Metro Dallas-Ft. Worth) Democrats Kim Olson, a retired Air Force colonel and former Weatherford school board member, will face Candace Valenzuela, who serves on the school board in Carrollton-Farmers Branch. The winner will take on the Republican nominee, former Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne, for the right to succeed retiring incumbent Kenny Marchant in another race Democrats have targeted.
The Democratic runoff in Texas' 31st District (Northern Austin suburbs) features Donna Imam, an Austin computer engineer, against Christine Mann, a physician from Williamson County who lost the party’s runoff in this district in 2018. The winner will face incumbent Republican John Carter, who is also on the Democrats’ target list.
And state Senator Royce West is competing with former Air Force combat pilot MJ Hegar, who narrowly lost to Carter in 2018, for the right to take on John Cornyn for a Senate seat that Democrats hope to flip in November.
Eddie Lucio Jr. vs. Sara Stapleton-Barrera: @DanPatrick and Texas Republicans will be watching this runoff closely. Incumbent Eddie Lucio Jr. is Patrick’s favorite Democrat, a socially conservative senator who seems ill at ease in a party that’s become more progressive.
— Texas Monthly (@TexasMonthly) July 10, 2020
Early voting ended Friday for Tuesday’s primary runoff and special elections. Across Texas, 647K people voted in the Democratic runoff -- 200K (31%) by mail-- accounting for 4% of registered voters statewide. Total votes cast already exceeds the total votes cast in each Democratic runoff since 1994 (747K).
Texas Senate Democratic Primary Runoff:
— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) July 12, 2020
M.J. Hegar 35%
Royce West 22%@UTTyler/@dallasnews 6/29-7/7https://t.co/sRiNKFEv9v #TXsen
Texas Senate - Democratic Primary Runoff:
— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) July 10, 2020
M.J. Hegar 39%
Royce West 35%@tpctweet/@JohnCornyn Internal Poll 7/8https://t.co/9ZrKEKK4Fe #TXsen
But Cornyn seems to want to run against Hegar, if his teevee ads attacking West as a "librul" can be interpreted as such.
One thing to watch in this coming Tuesday’s primaries: Whether any GOP efforts to elevate left-wing candidates works. Evidence is against it. Democrats *assume swing voters are conservative,* and telling them a candidate is more liberal spooks them https://t.co/mJyo7Foao9
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 12, 2020
Meanwhile, Hegar and West's numbers suffer from lack of Dem consolidation. They get just 62% and 55% of Democratic support, respectively. Expect that number to rise significantly after the primary is over. Hegar also ties Cornyn support among independents, a good sign for her.
— Jacob Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) July 12, 2020
Both our senators played "Quien es mas Stupido?" this past week.
Sen. Cornyn as Texas reports 550 child cases: 'We still don't know' if kids can get, transmit COVID https://t.co/nQRMBW1DTf
— Lindsay Wise (@lindsaywise) July 12, 2020
No, Ted:
— Gabino Iglesias (@Gabino_Iglesias) July 11, 2020
- Beans are a staple of Caribbean food. Brand doesn’t matter.
- Your grandparents were magicians who ate Goya half a decade before the brand started in NY.
- No Cuban eats black beans twice a day every day, pendejo.
- Mejor cállate y no hables por nosotros, Rafael. https://t.co/k1GEOll8nD
Update: The man can't go one fucking day without making an ass of himself.
Sen Ted Cruz flew on American Airlines w/out a mask.
— 🔻☭Commie☭Angel☭ #GeneralStrike #BurnItDown🔥#ACAB (@CommieAngel) July 13, 2020
His camps claiming the plane pic was taken when he took off his mask for a drink (which already makes the mask useless...)
But why is there no mask Anywhere in the picture?
And why was he able to be in the terminal w/out one? pic.twitter.com/n5bwc5JkHZ
The State Bar of Texas elected ...well, you can read it for yourself.
My fellow Texas lawyers decided to elect this Boss Hogg looking motherfucker as President of the @statebaroftexas, who says BLM is a terrorist group and thinks a poll worker broke the law against electioneering by wearing a BLM shirt. pic.twitter.com/ZcO70nLmeC
— Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) July 12, 2020
Update: Texas lawyers want his resignation now, after three weeks as president.
Just in: President Trump now claims this privately funded border wall in the Rio Grande Valley — touted as the "Lamborghini" of fences — was built to "make me look bad," even though the project's builder and funders are all Trump supporters.https://t.co/8z8WWa9cAl
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 12, 2020
In media developments, a New Jersey hedge fund has been declared the high bidder for McClatchy, the company publishing the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star, and 27 other daily newspapers.
Houston Black Restaurant Week launches July 10 and will run through July 19. The week-long event will feature black-owned restaurants throughout eight cities, include New Orleans, Atlanta, Dallas, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia. https://t.co/tfcoDPnN6N #HouNews #DFW
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) July 10, 2020
For my @TexasMonthly debut, I wrote about the changing face of Dilophosaurus (my favorite dinosaur), its history within the Navajo Nation, and how we shape our understandings of bone. https://t.co/SAdpdL1hAK
— Asher Elbein (@asher_elbein) July 10, 2020
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