Jul 1, 2024 | Campaign News
By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor JUNE. 20, 2024 Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 points in Texas, according to the latest UT/Texas Politics Project poll. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it...
Jun 3, 2024 | Campaign News
By the Numbers: Speaker Phelan’s Narrow Runoff Win and ‘Crossover’ Voting By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAY. 29, 2024 Speaker Dade Phelan was bound to make history last night. He was going to become either the first incumbent Speaker ousted in a...
May 21, 2024 | Campaign News
Winning in the Runoffs: How First-Place Primary Finishers Fare By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAY. 21, 2024 Last week, we looked at the historically poor success rate of incumbent legislators who get forced into runoffs. Since 1996, just about...
May 20, 2024 | Campaign News
Pre-Runoff Review By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAY. 15, 2024 Early voting for the primary runoff election begins Monday. Unlike the primary election, the runoff is always a head-to-head matchup. For the candidates, winning hinges more on...
Apr 10, 2024 | Campaign News
By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAR. 11 2024 Endangered Incumbents Incumbents were more than endangered, it turns out. A record nine Republican incumbents fell on Tuesday. Another eight Republicans and one Democrat were forced into runoffs. Coming...
Apr 2, 2024 | Campaign News
Storylines From Primary Night By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAR. 15, 2024 Turnout Based on preliminary figures, 3.29M Texans voted in the Republican and Democratic primaries combined. This is the fourth most in state history behind 2016 (4.27M),...
Mar 5, 2024 | Campaign News
By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAR. 4, 2024 Endangered incumbents? Only one legislative incumbent has fallen in a primary election in the last two primary elections. At least four legislative incumbents were ousted in the each of the previous...
Feb 14, 2024 | Campaign News
Texas House Race 30-Day-Out Report Analysis Challengers Outpacing Incumbents By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor More than $8 million flowed into races pitting an incumbent Republican House member against one or more primary challengers during the...
Jan 24, 2024 | Campaign News
Governor Greg Abbott continues to set state fundraising records. He reported raising $19.7M in his January semiannual reports, which covered the second half of 2023. This is the most ever raised by an officeholder for a semi-annual period in a non-election year,...
Jan 8, 2024 | Campaign News
By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor JAN. 5, 2023 If it seems to you like more Republican House incumbents are facing multiple primary challengers (MPCs), then your perceptive powers are accurate. This cycle, 16 House Republicans are facing MPCs. This...
Dec 19, 2023 | Campaign News
By Laura Carr TXElects Owner & Head of Business Development DEC. 18, 2023 TXElects has launched a prototype of the first AI-driven software for Texas political professionals to 10 heavy-hitting organizations. This software is specifically designed to aggregate,...
Dec 18, 2023 | Campaign News
DEC 8, 2023 By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor Houston’s mayoral runoff, like all elections, will come down to turnout, but turnout variations may well point to a built-in advantage for one of the candidates. Senator John Whitmire received 43.0% of...
