{"id":305497,"date":"2026-05-23T03:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/305497\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:32:10","slug":"early-voting-ends-ahead-of-texas-primary-runoffs-for-cornyn-paxton-and-key-house-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/305497\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting ends ahead of Texas primary runoffs for Cornyn, Paxton and key House race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Early voting has ended, and voters now turn to Tuesday\u2019s primary runoff elections, with several high-profile contests on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Bexar County Elections Department posted to Facebook to announce the early voting turnout.<\/p>\n<p>IN PERSON: DEM &#8211; 30,782; REP &#8211; 40,897BY MAIL: DEM &#8211; 7,360; REP &#8211; 3,614<\/p>\n<p>Among the key races is the Republican runoff between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton for a spot on the November ballot for a U.S. Senate seat. <\/p>\n<p>On the Democratic side, Johnny Garcia and Maureen Galindo are headed to a runoff for the chance to represent District 35 in the November election.<\/p>\n<p>As of tonight, nearly 31,000 Democrats had voted early, along with nearly 41,000 Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Election Day is Tuesday. Polls open at 7 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Early voting has ended, and voters now turn to Tuesday\u2019s primary runoff elections, with several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-305497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305497","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=305497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}