Jun 17, 2017 | Campaign News
See our 2018 Challengers page for all 164 challengers and open seat candidates who we confirm have taken a formal step toward running for state and federal office from Texas in 2018. GOV: Plano landscape and construction business owner Danny Harrison announced via...
Jun 8, 2017 | Campaign News
SEN: Plano winemaker Maurice Ellison Armstrong created a CrowdPAC page for a potential challenge of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R) as a Democrat. Bedford resident Aaron Gwaltney created a CrowdPAC page to run as an independent. CD10: Joe Miguez created a CrowdPAC page for a...
May 25, 2017 | Campaign News
Voter ID: The Senate refused to concur in House amendments to Senate Bill 5 and appointed a conference committee comprised of Sens. Joan Huffman (R-Houston), Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston), Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola), Eddie Lucio Jr. (D-Brownsville) and Jane Nelson...
May 16, 2017 | Campaign News
SEN: U.S. Sen. John Cornyn announced he has withdrawn from consideration to be the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “The best way I can serve is continuing to fight for a conservative agenda in the U.S. Senate,” he said in a statement. Cornyn’s...
May 14, 2017 | Campaign News
SEN: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told supporters in an email that he has “no interest in being appointed to or running for the U.S. Senate” in response to speculation he may be a potential successor to U.S. Sen. John Cornyn if the latter left the Senate to head the Federal...
May 12, 2017 | Campaign News
SEN: U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is reportedly one of four people being interviewed by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions tomorrow (Saturday) to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation. If Cornyn were to lead the bureau, Gov. Greg Abbott would appoint a replacement to...
May 10, 2017 | Campaign News
SEN: Political commentator Matthew Dowd has decided against challenging U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz as an independent. Dowd faced nearly impossible odds of winning as an independent facing headwind of Texans’ high rate of straight-party voting. CD32: Dallas “unsettling...
May 1, 2017 | Campaign News
Early Voting concludes tomorrow (Tuesday) for the May 6 elections in most jurisdictions holding them. Redistricting: The three-judge panel overseeing ongoing litigation over the state’s House and Congressional maps denied the state’s request to appeal to the Fifth...
Apr 19, 2017 | Campaign News
ThomasMcNutt HD8: Corsicana bakery owner Thomas McNutt intends to seek a rematch against Rep. Byron Cook (R-Corsicana), who defeated McNutt by 225 votes in the 2016 Republican primary. Cook out-raised his opponent, $1.0M to $452K, and outspent him, $1.4M to $472M....
Apr 19, 2017 | Political Climate
A new poll from the Texas Lyceum shows a statistical dead heat in the U.S. Senate race, except that “haven’t thought enough about it” is the response of a plurality of registered voters. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-El Paso) are tied, 30-30,...
Apr 18, 2017 | Campaign Finance, Campaign News
Congressional Campaign Finance: Quarterly campaign finance reports were due over the weekend for federal officeholders and certain candidates. Highlights include: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R) report is not currently available. We previously reported that U.S. Sen. Ted...
Apr 10, 2017 | Campaign News
Voter ID: “A discriminatory purpose was at least one of the substantial or motivating factors behind passage” of the state’s Voter ID law, U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos ruled. Ramos previously came to the same conclusion, but a divided Fifth Circuit Court...
