Meece has the most votes Tuesday with 4,357.
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For Pct. 1, Kenny Elliott will go up against Joshua Benn. Patrick will face Democrat Mike Collier in November.
Former Grimes County Judge Ben Leman is facing a challenge from local businesswoman Jill Wolfskill. Incumbent Ken Paxton will face the Democratic challenger, Justin Nelson. O’Rourke only pulled in 61% of the vote for a total of 641,324 votes.
Wasserman said Lamb’s centrist policy positions could make him appealing to voters in the district. Leago earned 23% of the vote.
The main target for Crowe and the other progressive in the primary, nonprofit CEO Elliott McFadden, is David Kopser, an Austin-based tech entrepreneur and Iraq War veteran who is following the traditional strategy for Democrats in conservative districts by running a campaign centered on being willing to reach compromises with Republicans and that won’t trigger a Republican backlash at the polls.
To be sure, Cruz is still the favorite in November as he seeks a second term.
But while there were some successes down the political ladder, from first-time candidates running for state legislature and judgeships, the blue voter turnout seen in 2018’s first primaries demonstrated that it will be years before red-run Texas becomes politically purple, despite its diversifying demographics. No non-incumbent Democratic woman has won a House race in Texas since 1994. That surpasses the last three midterms.
Political experts closely scrutinized Tuesday’s voting for a more complete picture of just how big the Democratic tail winds will be in November, when Trump will lead a Republican effort to maintain control of the House and Senate.
Cruz also said that if the economy is booming and conservatives show up at the polls, his party could pick up as many as seven seats in the Senate and hold a “large, functioning majority”.
But O’Rourke has recently outraised U.S. Sen. “Right now, they are ceding that entire debate to Democrats”.
This primary has been proof that an increasing number of voters are finally realizing they can only hold elected officials responsible and get the government they want if they are present and voting. Barton won’t seek re-election after a nude photo of the 68-year-old congressman circulated online. This is a race over the Alamo: Patterson has campaigned against what he calls Bush’s failed stewardship of the site of the historic battle. An audit suggested his office mismanaged the Alamo, and opponents said he gave preferential treatment to a campaign donor in a selection process for a state contract. Dana Rohrabacher and Mimi Walters, among others, must defend themselves in districts that President Donald Trump lost in 2016. If O’Rourke does indeed win, it will be a milestone for the blue party as the last time Texas had a Democratic senator, in the form of Lloyd Bentsen, was three decades ago.
Another key contest is the Democratic gubernatorial primary, where the top two contenders in a crowded field are former Dallas County Sherriff Lupe Valdez, backed by the party’s establishment, and Andrew White, who opposes abortion and whose father, Mark, was governor in the 1980s. The top two vote-getters advance to the general election. In 2014, 8,010 voters cast a ballot in the Democratic Party’s primary runoff.
During early voting last weekend Bonier said he saw bumps in the number of women, black and Hispanic voters, and a parallel drop in white voters turning out. “She is a Washington insider, who begrudgingly moved to Houston to run for Congress”, the document read.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is striking a cautious tone despite sailing to victory against little-known challengers in Texas’ first-in-the-nation primary.
This year, Democrats stand their best chance in years for flipping the U.S. House majority.
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These numbers have to be factored in with the county’s growth: From 2014 to 2016 (the past year data is available), the U.S. Census Bureau’s estimates show a 9 percent increase in the county’s population.
