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

And with a majority of results now in, the two candidates who were at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 are still performing poorly. According to the New York Times, Alma Arredondo-Lynch — who’s challenging incumbent Rep. Tony Gonzales in the 23rd District — has 14.7 percent of the vote versus Gonzales’s 78.8 percent, with 65 percent of precincts reporting. (Gonzales was one of five members of the Texas House GOP contingent to vote to certify the 2020 presidential election results.) Over in the 35th District, Sam Montoya languishes in seventh place with 9.2 percent of the vote, with 51 percent of precincts reporting.

A few more Big Lie-endorsing candidate race updates from your resident disinformation reporter. Morgan Luttrell, a former Navy SEAL running for the GOP nomination in the 8th District, has called for a forensic audit of the 2020 election and said that he wouldn’t have endorsed the results, is leading in his race with 53.7 percent of the vote, according to the New York Times. It’s worth noting, though, that his closest competitor — political operative Christian Collins, who currently has 22.4 percent of the vote and may see Luttrell in a run-off — said the exact same things.

A lot of us are turning our attention back to Texas, but since I mentioned the GOP and women earlier, it’s worth noting that the GOP response to Biden’s address tonight will be delivered by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds. Elected in 2017, she is the first female governor to lead Iowa (19 states have still yet to have a woman governor!). As The 19th wrote, asking her to deliver the rebuttal is arguably an attempt by the GOP to appeal to women voters.