Patrick Svitek
Reporter, @TexasTribune. Email: [email protected] I write The Blast: texastribune.org/theblast/. Previously @HoustonChron, @MedillSchool.
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Texas Supreme Court rules 3 Green Party candidates should be added back to November ballot
Democrats successfully sued last month to remove from the ballot the Green Party nominees for U.S. Senate, Railroad Commission and the 21st Congressional District.
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Patrick Svitek
Texas Supreme Court rules 3 Green Party candidates should be added back to November ballot
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Biden campaign adds more staff in Texas
The campaign has added 13 more members to its team in Texas, where polls continue to point to a close race against President Donald Trump.
National Democratic group to spend $6.2 million in effort to flip the Texas House
The super PAC, Forward Majority, is pouring the money into 18 races that will likely determine which party controls the lower chamber in January.
Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks Harris County from sending mail-in ballot applications to all its voters
The Harris County Republican Party had sued to stop the sending of the ballots.
MJ Hegar
This won't be your average campaign fundraiser, y'all.
Join me and Beto O'Rourke for a virtual grassroots event hosted by Ashley Cheng. Chip in whatever you can and join us this Thursday at 6 p.m....
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Patrick Svitek
.@BetoORourke, who stayed neutral throughout the #TXSEN primary/runoff, is doing his first event specifically for @MJHegar since she became the nominee
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Gov. Greg Abbott defends mask mandate to "frustrated" delegates at Texas GOP convention
The governor began the state party convention Thursday by addressing head-on the growing discontent with his orders to contain the pandemic.
For second time, federal judge finds Texas is violating voter registration law
A U.S. district judge found Texas is “legally obligated” to allow voters to simultaneously register to vote with every driver's license renewal or change-of-address application, and ordered the state to set up a “fully operable” online system by...
The Texas GOP's new slogan echoes a conspiracy group. Its chair says there's no connection.
The slogan — "We are the storm" — uses language commonly used by QAnon adherents. State GOP Chair Allen West says it's taken from a favorite quote.
The Democrats' national convention shone a spotlight on Texas' emerging bench — beyond the Castros and O'Rourke
During their party's national convention this week, Democrats got a glimpse of their roster of up-and-coming leaders. Among them were at least four Texans who aren't the usual suspects.
Raul Reyes For Congress
Update: Bexar County recount is done... we net gained 8 votes. We now stand only 37 votes behind (from 45 before).
....and are quickly closing the gap!
Folks, one county net gained 8 votes!...
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Patrick Svitek
From Saturday: @Raul4Congress says the Bexar County recount of the #TX23 runoff is done and he netted eight votes. (He entered the recount with a 45-vote deficit.)
Bexar made up about half the total runoff vote.
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Garcia: Montoya aims for an upset in GOP House District
District 121 was held for 14 years by former House Speaker Joe Straus.
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Patrick Svitek
Another Dem internal in a Texas House race, this one from #HD121 nominee @CelinaForTexas:
Montoya 49
Allison (R-inc.) 42
Biden +12 after Trump +8 in 2016
(EMC Research; July 28-Aug. 1; 406 LVs; +/-4.9%)
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(1st reported: expressnews.com/news/news_colu…) #txlege
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Local GOP officials poised to select Texas' newest member of Congress, replacing John Ratcliffe in atypical election
Ratcliffe was confirmed earlier this summer as director of national intelligence, paving the way for party officials in his deep-red district to replace him on the November ballot.
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Patrick Svitek
#TX04 convention getting underway in Sulphur Springs. Our preview story from yesterday
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Joe Biden's campaign names first Texas hires for general election
The announcement comes as polls continue to show a close race in Texas between the presumptive Democratic nominee and President Donald Trump.
Gov. Greg Abbott will skip Republican National Convention to deal with coronavirus
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick will instead chair the Texas delegation to the pared-down convention later this month in North Carolina.
In a rare move, Texas Republicans tell President Trump "no" after he calls for delaying the election — something he's not legally allowed to do
The president does not have the legal authority to move Election Day; that power resides with Congress.
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Patrick Svitek
Cornyn: "I think it’s a joke, I guess, I don't know how else to interpret it. Obviously he doesn’t have the power to do that"
"All you guys in the press, your heads will explode & you'll write about it. I don’t know what his motivation is. He can’t do it"
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Texas Republicans face tough 2020 election after a rocky 12 months
The state's Republicans have had to weather a monthslong series of distractions while preparing for a November election that is now clouded by President Donald Trump's declining poll numbers and the coronavirus pandemic.
Bexar County GOP chair refuses to certify runoff election totals after losing in landslide
"I Cynthia Brehm, have determined that every aspect of this election has been severely compromised.”
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Patrick Svitek
Bexar County GOP chair refuses to certify runoff election totals after losing in landslide
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Former Florida congressman Allen West unseats James Dickey to become Texas GOP chairman
West defeated Dickey, who was running for a second full term, early Monday morning at a tumultuous virtual state convention.
As Trump Ignores Virus Crisis, Republicans Start to Contradict Him
President Trump continues to press for a quick return to life as usual, but Republicans who fear a rampaging disease and angry voters are increasingly going their own way.
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“The president got bored with it,” David Carney, an adviser to the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, a Republican, said of the pandemic. He noted that Mr. Abbott directs his requests to Mr. Pence, with whom he speaks two to three times a week.
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