AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats sued Texas elections officials Thursday in an effort to stop a new ban on straight-ticket voting in 2020, claiming that long lines on Super Tuesday hinted at problems to come in November.
Voter turnout in Nov. 2020: 67% of registered voters. Pre-Election Day voting Votes cast before Election Day 2020: about 87% of the total vote. Votes cast before Election Day 2022: about 68% of the total vote. Votes cast before Election Day 2024: See APAdvance Vote tracker. ...
Every county in North Texas saw participation increase on the first day of in-person early voting from 2020 to 2024 except for Dallas County, which saw a decline of more than 4,800 votes. The lower turnout might have been tied to anissue with digital poll booksthat Dallas County experience...
Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Colin Allred are making their final push for votes in the competitive Texas Senate race. Eye on Politics reporter Jack Fink discusses this contest and the other key races to watch on Election Night. Also, evaluating the early vote...
When the tellers announced Texas’ 40 Electoral College votes for Trump, boosting him overthe winning threshold of 270, Lone Star Republicans rose up, cheering and applauding. “This is a big day, returning Donald Trump to the White House,” U.S. Rep. Keith Self, R-...
September 21, 2020The Road to 270 is a weekly column leading up to the presidential election. Each installment is dedicated to understanding one state’s political landscape and how that might influence which party will win its electoral votes in 2020. We’ll do these roughly in order of ...
Cisneros, an immigration attorney and onetime intern in Cuellar’s office, lost to him by fewer than 3,000 votes in 2020. But green groups are bullish on her chances in the upcoming March 1 contest for Texas’s 28th District, citing dynamics that didn’t exist in the previous race...
000 more primary votes were cast by Republicans in 2024 than in 2020. He said that the difference-maker was a lower turnout of Democrat voters, and more independents swinging towards the right. He said two big factors to consider in the election include, "Why did all those Democrats st...
In the end, Trump’s success in peeling off Latino votes in South Texas had everything to do withnottalking to them as Latinos. His campaign spoke to them as Tejanos, who may be traditionally Democratic but have a set of specific concerns—among them, the oil and gas industry, gun right...
When Trump won the state in 2016, he became the first Republican to carry Wisconsin since 1984. But Joe Biden won it back in 2020 by just over 20,000 votes. In both elections, the state had been the tipping point in the Electoral College. Trump this year will...