The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of House Democrats, has begun pumping money into Texas. The campaign committee announced Tuesday it had paid for 5 new digital ads in Republican swing districts. Among them were the DCCC’s...
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As Texas reaches 4,000 deaths, Abbott advisor says Trump ‘bored’ by pandemic
Trump is facing a timid revolt within his own party due to his absent or misguided handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to one scathing New York Times report that was published over the weekend. “They appear to be spurred by several overlapping forces,...
Weekend wrap-up: Texas GOP convention flops, unclear if COVID cases stabilize
Technical difficulties marred the Texas GOP’s virtual convention over the weekend. The convention, which shifted from in-person to online last week after Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner canceled the event citing a worsening pandemic, was supposed to begin on...
Democratic incumbents in competitive races hold large cash lead
Two Democratic freshmen who flipped U.S. House seats in 2018 are rapidly expanding their war chest as they play defense against Republican challengers. Reps. Colin Allred from Dallas and Lizzie Fletcher from Houston each outraised their GOP opponents who are trying to...
The Texas Democrats most likely to flip GOP seats in 2020
With the dust settled in primary runoff elections and the latest congressional campaign finance reports filed, Texans now have a better idea of where the bloodiest battles will take place this November. In 2018, Democrats picked up two congressional seats in Houston...
Harris County joins most of Texas in creating a new office to run elections
On Tuesday, Harris County Commissioners Court voted to create a new office to oversee election-related matters in the county after the November 2020 general election. Historically, Harris County has relied on the county clerk and the tax assessor-collector’s office...
Texas Supreme Court says no to reviving GOP convention in Houston
The Texas Supreme Court on Monday ruled that it would not force Houston to host the Texas GOP’s in-person annual state convention, canceled last week over concerns of the worsening COVID-19 pandemic. In their ruling, the panel of nine Republican judges said the Texas...
Another round of Texas polling shows tight race between Biden and Trump
Two new polls released recently — one by CBS News and another by The Dallas Morning News — show a close presidential race in the Lone Star State. The CBS poll, released Sunday and conducted last week, shows former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump...
Texans are fed up with Abbott’s pandemic response, new poll finds
The opinion Texans have of Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID-19 response has plummeted since April, the latest 50-state poll by the COVID-19 Consortium shows. The survey, conducted by Harvard, Rutgers and other universities, shows the approval rating of Abbot's pandemic...
Texas water supply at risk because of climate change, Texas A&M study finds
As climate change brings about hotter temperatures in Texas, water supply could be threatened as early as 2050, according to a team of researchers led by a Texas A&M University professor. Using climate models, the team of researchers found that drier summers as...