The first primaries of the year weren’t short on drama. Much of it centered around Tuesday night’s marquee races, the primaries for the U.S. Senate in Texas. There were voting issues on the Democratic side and the GOP contest advanced to a runoff.
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Here's who is most at risk and symptoms to watch forDueling documentaries illuminate the promise and perils of artificial intelligenceA glossary to help cut through seed-packet jargon and confidently plant indoorsLo que la respuesta de China a la guerra de Irán dice sobre su política exterioraffecting the state’s second-largest county, which caused confusion around ballot eligibility. The Republican nomination is still up in the air and headed tolost reelection, and the fate of several more hang in the balance as some races advance to runoffs and others remain too close to call.in history isn’t over yet. Neither Sen. John Cornyn nor state Attorney General Ken Paxton cleared the 50% threshold necessary to avoid a May runoff.There wasn’t a clear ideological or geographic divide in the results, despite the race being framed as an establishment vs. insurgent showdown. The tight margins in Houston, Dallas and their surrounding areas underscore how the battle lines cut across, rather than neatly between, Texas’ urban and suburban regions.Cornyn — whom Paxton attacked as too aligned with D.C. Republicans and not loyal enough to President Donald Trump — led in the state’s largest counties, including those encompassing the metro areas of Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin and Houston. But Paxton remained competitive, trailing by roughly 1,700 votes in Harris County, home to Houston, and 4,000 votes in Bexar County, home to San Antonio. At the same time, Paxton won some of the fast-growing suburban counties around these cities. In Montgomery County, north of Houston, he built a 21,000-vote advantage, which was more than enough to offset his combined losses in Harris, Travis and Bexar counties. The biggest separation between Cornyn and Paxton was in the counties least friendly to Trump. That’s a relative measure in Texas, where Trump won at least 80% of the vote in over half of the state’s counties in the 2024 presidential election, but it still provided Cornyn with a 6,000-vote buffer. Paxton, conversely, received more total votes in the counties where Trump won at least 70% of the vote. That makes sense, given how Paxton styled himself as the more MAGA-faithful option.was powered in part by the massive leads he built in his home base around heavily Democratic Austin as well as in the smaller, more rural counties in the center of the state. With nearly all ballots counted, he collectively received nearly 70% of the vote in these areas, much of which tends to vote overwhelmingly Republican in general elections. Talarico also carried smaller but still decisive margins in the state’s southern and western regions with large Hispanic populations. He received about 60% of the vote across the regions along the U.S.-Mexico border where Trump made inroads in 2024. Talarico carried the larger counties of Hidalgo at the southern tip with nearly 70% of the vote and the westernmost county of El Paso with more than 60%. The bulk of Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s support came from the state’s urban population centers around Houston and her home base of Dallas. Although these regions tend to contribute the most votes in Democratic primaries and often play a pivotal role in determining the winner, Crockett carried the areas by more modest margins than Talarico did in the state’s southern, central and western regions. Crockett posted bigger margins in East Texas, which includes a concentration of counties with some of the state’s highest shares of Black population, but this area comprised less than 8% of the total primary vote.districts, two border districts redrawn to favor Republicans, were among the most expensive House races in the state. Both had incumbents with nominal primary opposition, but the primaries to select a November challenger saw big spending., which is likely to be the only competitive House race in the state come November, saw a similar dynamic. Five Republicans ran to challenge vulnerable Democratic incumbent Rep. Don Davis. The eventual winner, Laurie Buckhout, had over $1 million in ad spending alone, according to data from the nonpartisan ad-tracking firm AdImpact., featured incumbents — already likely to have spending advantages -- fending off challengers. Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw became the first House incumbent of 2026 to lose reelection despite his campaign benefiting from more than $2.3 million attacking his opponent, state Rep. Steve Toth. Brandon Herrera spent almost $1.4 million on ads attacking Rep. Tony Gonzales, whose reelection campaign was damaged bySweedler is a reporter for The Associated Press, with a focus on analyzing election outcomes and procedures and explaining the intricacies of the electoral process.Yoon is an elections and democracy reporter for The Associated Press, with a focus on analyzing vote and demographic data and explaining the intricacies of the electoral process. He is now covering his seventh presidential campaign cycle.Texas GOP Senate race heads to runoff. Democrats too early to call
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