{"id":401502,"date":"2026-08-09T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401502\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T01:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T01:00:20","slug":"this-week-in-texas-attorney-generals-race-new-tsu-poll-mail-in-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401502\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Texas: Attorney General&#8217;s race, new TSU poll, mail-in ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Abrahams Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15664086_KTRK-Tom-Abrahams-Bio-2025-IMG.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, August 9, 2026 12:19AM<\/p>\n<p>This Week in Texas, the close races for Governor and Senate, candidates for attorney general speak, and mail-in ballots discussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">This Week in Texas, we look at the close races for Governor and the U.S. Senate, with another poll showing what might be a trend. We speak with one of the poll&#8217;s authors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">We also talk with both candidates for Texas Attorney General &#8211; Democrat Nathan Johnson and Republican Mayes Middleton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">And our political insiders join us to talk about the fight over mail-in ballots, This Week in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, August 9, 2026 12:19AM This Week in Texas, the close races for Governor and Senate, candidates for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140817,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-401502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-140817","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401502","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=401502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}