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

In Texas, the Associated Press has called the Democratic primary in Texas’s 34th District for Rep. Vicente Gonzalez. As a reminder, though, Gonzalez was facing a difficult reelection bid in his current 15th District and decided to seek office in a much safer seat. At least in my book, it looks like this move worked to his benefit.

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.