{"id":310447,"date":"2026-05-27T07:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310447\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:46:21","slug":"texas-rep-vikki-goodwin-wins-democratic-nomination-for-lieutenant-governor-will-face-dan-patrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310447\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rep. Vikki Goodwin wins Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, will face Dan Patrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas voters have selected State Rep. Vikki Goodwin as the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, CBS News projects.<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin defeated labor leader Marcos Velez in Tuesday&#8217;s primary runoff election for the chance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/texas-democratic-primary-lt-governor-eye-on-politics-goodwin-velez\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">challenge Republican incumbent Dan Patrick in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin, an Austin Democrat serving her fourth term in the Texas House, advanced to the runoff after leading the March primary with 48% of the vote, but falling short of the majority needed to avoid a runoff. During her campaign, Goodwin focused on increasing public school funding, expanding access to health care and opposing Texas&#8217; school voucher program, while highlighting her legislative experience and bipartisan relationships at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Velez, a Houston-area union organizer, finished second in the March primary with 31% of the vote. His campaign centered on raising the minimum wage, improving public education funding and expanding health care access, arguing his working-class background and experience negotiating on behalf of workers made him better suited to represent everyday Texans.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas voters have selected State Rep. Vikki Goodwin as the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, CBS News projects.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[409,27,29,28,292],"class_list":["post-310447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-election","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310447","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=310447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}