HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn the GOP Senate primary, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and incumbent Senator John Cornyn both advanced to a runoff election in May, as neither achieved the 50-percent threshold needed. Congressman Wesley Hunt was a distant third with14-percent of the vote.<\/p>\n
On the Democrat side, James Talarico still holds a 53-47 lead over Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, with over 70-percent of precincts reporting.<\/p>\n
In the race for Attorney General, that will also head to another runoff. State Senator Mayes Middleton and Congressman Chip Roy both advanced to a runoff election in May, beating out challengers Aaron Reitz and Joan Huffman.<\/p>\n
The Comptrollers race was a slight surprise, as Trump-endorsed candidate Don Huffines overwhelmingly defeated incumbent, and Governor Abbott endorsed Kelly Hancock to win the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n
There was also a bit of an upset in the Congressional side of the ballot. In the Republican primary for District 2 U.S. Representative, Texas State Representative Steve Toth defeated incumbent Congressman Dan Crenshaw by another large margin. Toth declared victory on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
In the Republican primary for the 9th District, Alex Mealer and Texas State Representative Briscoe Cain are also heading for a runoff election in May.<\/p>\n
Locally in Harris County, the race for Judge appears to be tightly contested in the Republican primary. Orlando Sanchez has jumped to a lead with 26-percent of the vote, Marty Lancton is at 22-percnet, while Aliza Dutt and Warren Howell both have 20-percent as of 11:55 pm Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The voting is done, for now. Texans went to the polls for the primaries on Tuesday, with several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-190079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}