More than 40 elections across Texas will be decided Tuesday, May 26, as voters head to the polls for primary runoff races.<\/p>\n
Only 4% of registered voters across the state voted early from Monday through Friday, according to the report.<\/p>\n
The report said few people typically vote during runoff elections held after the Memorial Day holiday and during graduation season.<\/p>\n
\u201cReliable Democratic voters, people who pay attention to Democratic politics in an acute way, know our record differentials,\u201d U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Farmers Branch, said.<\/p>\n
The report said low turnout may play a major role in a Dallas-based congressional district race, where Johnson is competing in a runoff. Former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred said his campaign is focused on bringing out first-time and inconsistent voters.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always a challenge in runoffs. And I\u2019ve been here before, and I know what that is about. But I also think there are a lot of people who are paying attention,\u201d Allred said.<\/p>\n
On the Republican side, statewide offices are also being decided in runoff elections.<\/p>\n
\u201cTurnout is less in a runoff. It is only the most ultra-mega, right, ultra-conservative primary voters,\u201d state Sen. Mayes Middleton, R-Galveston, said.<\/p>\n
The report said Middleton and U.S. Rep. Chip Roy are facing each other for the state\u2019s attorney general race.<\/p>\n
The Republican runoff between incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has also drawn attention ahead of Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n
\u201cTypically, what happens is you have fewer people show up in the runoff, which is basically a recipe to let a handful of people determine who your elected officials are going to be,\u201d Cornyn said.<\/p>\n
The report said roughly 850,000 Republicans had voted so far, nearly half a million fewer than the 1.3 million who voted in March\u2019s first round.<\/p>\n
Polls across Texas will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 40 elections across Texas will be decided Tuesday, May 26, as voters head to the polls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8817,27,29,28,2279],"class_list":["post-308485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-lone-star-politics","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308485","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=308485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}