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

With Gonzales being declared the winner of his primary, according to the Associated Press, a majority of Republican incumbents who voted to certify the 2020 election results — Gonzales and Reps. Chip Roy and Michael McCaul, who ran uncontested — have now won their primaries. The other two, Reps. Dan Crenshaw and Van Taylor, are running at 76 and 51 percent of the vote respectively, with about 70 percent of results in.

Rep. Tony Gonzalez is likely getting the nomination in the Texas’s 23rd Congressional District (he currently has 78.7 percent of the vote, according to the New York Times, and the Associated Press has called the race for him). But Big Lie proponent and actual insurrection participant Alma Arredondo-Lynch had a not-insignificant showing: She currently has 14.8 percent of the vote, according to the Times.

Now let’s check in on Trump’s chosen candidates. So far, all of them have either won their race or are leading, though a good share — 7 out of 19 — ran unopposed. If this trend continues, all of Trump’s endorsees will win by a large enough margin to avoid a primary runoff, though it’s hard to say whether Trump’s endorsement was decisive, or if they would have gotten such a large share of the vote anyway.