Last Night's Election Results: Texas, N. Carolina, Arkansas
Texas pulled some classic last-minute voter suppression moves.
After the Texas GOP pulled every voter suppression trick in the book, James Talerico seems to have won the Democratic Senate primary. "Seems" to be the winner because as of late last night, so much confusion about which votes were counted, it's hard to be accurate. As of this writing, Jasmine Crockett has not conceded. Still, the Associated Press has called it for James Talerico.
UPDATE: Crockett just conceded.
Incumbent GOP Senator John Cornyn had a good night, doing much better than predicted, but is still headed to a runoff with the terrible and corrupt Ken Paxton.
Congress MAGAts Chip Roy and Dan Crenshaw go bye-bye in the GOP primary. (Roy was running for Texas AG.)
The incredibly popular former Gov. Roy Cooper cruised to an easy victory in North Carolina's Democratic Senate primary, and will face MAGAt Michael Whatley, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee. And incumbent Democratic state legislators who sided with Republicans got spanked:
And in the Arkansas state house, the Dem won a special election:
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