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A man votes Tuesday Nov. 7 at the Olmos Basin Golf Course in San Antonio. Texans will vote again - early voting starting Tuesday - on federal, state and county primary races.
El Paso Rep. Beto O'Rourke, the Texas Democrat hoping to oust Republican powerhouse Sen. Ted Cruz, announced he's raised $2.2 million in the first six weeks of 2018. That's almost as much as O'Rourke raised in the final three months of 2017, when he posted a $2.4 million haul and outraised the sitting senator.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is preparing Texas Republicans for a turbulent election year amid super-charged Democratic enthusiasm - including in his own re-election campaign. Traveling the state for GOP events this weekend, Cruz portrayed an uncertain midterm environment that could go down as disastrous for Republicans if they don't work to counteract Democratic energy throughout the country.
In the 2016 election cycle, Democrats pinned their hopes of flipping a red Congressional seat in Texas on just one district. With Trump's low approval rating and a surge of energy among voters on the left, Democrats say they have their best shot in years of taking back a few critical seats in Texas.
Vulnerable Republican Rep. Will Hurd's biggest challenge this year isn't his Democratic opposition, his tough battleground district, or even separating himself from an unpopular president. It's his own party's agenda in Washington.
That was the deadline for U.S. House and Senate campaigns to file finance reports covering the last three months of 2017. Those watching the races closely are sure to pore over the mishmash of donations and expenditures to separate viable candidates from the long shots.
He's running for U.S. Senate but as the Sunday morning sun rose over a park near the Texas-Mexico border, Democratic Congressman Beto O'Rourke had another run in mind. Wearing well-worn shorts and sneakers, the onetime punk rock guitarist was leading a group of supporters on a jog around a duck-dotted pond.
A recent post on Amarillo Animal Management and Welfare's Facebook page serves as a stark reminder - put the safety of your pets first, even when finding them a new home. From the post: "A very well-known offender to AAM&W has just surrendered another one of their dogs that they got off Craigslist.
One congressman is a low-key member of a political dynasty who is strategically inserting himself into policy debates and laying out what he thinks Democrats still need to learn. The other is a retired Marine and combat veteran who has tangled with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and has already logged a high-profile trip to Iowa more than three years ahead of the next presidential caucus.
Democrats have a path to a Senate majority in 2018 after an upset win by Doug Jones in last Tuesday's Alabama Senate special election. The win in Alabama now gives Democrats the elusive third target seat they had been looking for, which they needed given they're defending 10 incumbents who sit in states that Trump won last November.
Mike Collier, then-Democratic nominee for Texas comptroller, at the state Democratic convention in Dallas on June 27, 2014. Collier is running for lieutenant governor in 2018.
Senate hopeful Beto O'Rourke said this week that he isn't worried that Democrats haven't found a viable candidate to run for governor. "The only thing I can do is what I can do.
Democrats haven't won a Texas governor's race in nearly three decades, but a booming Hispanic population and the party's dominance of the state's largest cities have made them willing to invest in the contest to keep hopes of an eventual resurgence alive. After high-profile candidates lost decisively in the last two elections, though, the party now finds itself in unprecedented territory for the 2018 ballot: with no major candidate to run.
In this Nov. 4, 2014, file photo, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis waves to supporters as she arrives to make her concession speech at her election watch party in Fort Worth, Texas. Four years ago the Democrats pumped big money and organizing muscle into Texas, hoping a gubernatorial candidate that generated national stardom with a 12-hour filibuster could begin turning America's largest red state blue.
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz , R-Texas, waded into this Democratic stronghold Tuesday to celebrate the Fourth of July -- and predictably got an earful from protesters, many upset with the Senate's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare. Cruz, who has a knack for confrontation with his political opponents in Washington and far outside it, had to speak over the demonstrators for most of his speech at an Independence Day ceremony, twice pausing to address the commotion.
At least three members of the U.S. House are mulling a run for a possible U.S. Senate vacancy, should President Donald Trump appoint U.S. Sen. John Cornyn as the new FBI director. U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul , an Austin Republican, is one of those hopefuls for the would-be vacancy, along with Democratic U.S. Reps.
U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke said Thursday he is all but certain to make a run for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz 's seat in 2018. "I've had the chance to talk to a lot of people around the state of Texas over the last six weeks, and I will tell you, I'm very encouraged," he told The Texas Tribune on Thursday in an interview.
Caught between the anti-globalist tirades of their presidential standard bearer and their state's close trade ties with Mexico, Texas congressional Republicans are straddling a tricky political line when it comes to talk of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.