What Went Down At Biden’s State Of The Union And Texas’s Primary Election

That Republican primary for attorney general remains on a knife’s edge. Incumbent Ken Paxton looks set to advance to a runoff with 42 percent, but doesn’t look likely to win renomination outright with a majority of the vote. Land Commissioner George P. Bush holds a narrow lead for the other runoff slot, as he leads former Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman 21 percent to 20 percent, but it’s really close. Rep. Louie Gohmert is in fourth place with 17 percent, so he may not be out of it either.

To your point, Kaleigh, I’m semi-surprised that Gohmert isn’t doing better in the Republican attorney general primary? He, like incumbent Paxton, similarly endorsed Trump’s false claims of a rigged election, but is currently in last place among his competitors.

Down in Texas, I’m tracking some of the candidates who have endorsed the Big Lie (that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election, which is not true). Rep. Pat Fallon, who voted to overturn the results of that election, is leading in the GOP primary for Texas’s 4th District with 59 percent of the vote, according to the New York Times. Meanwhile, another member of Congress who voted to overturn the election — Rep. Lance Gooden — is uncontested in the 5th District.