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

In Texas’s 15th District, we’re probably headed to a runoff in the Democratic primary between attorney andveteran Ruben Ramirez, who has 28.6 percent of the vote according to the New York Times, and one of three other candidates: attorney John Rigney, small business owner Michelle Vallejo and educator Eliza Alvarado, who are bunched up at 20.4 percent, 19.5 percent and 16.6 percent of the vote, respectively. Ramirez is the preferred choice of a lot of Democrats in D.C., who think he’s the best option to hold onto this highly competitive seat. More interesting, however, is that roughly the same number of votes seem to have been cast in the GOP primary (21,915) as in the Democratic contest (22,834), which is ominous for Democrats trying to hold onto a historically blue seat.

As we wait for more results to come in, I’m honestly struck by how few surprises there have been so far tonight. Abbott and O’Rourke won big, as expected. Paxton looks like he’s going to a runoff. Cisneros-Cuellar is close. And other incumbents and favorites are winning handily.

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.