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

Another Big Lie race to keep an eye on is Texas’s 15th District. A little background: In 2020, Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez narrowly beat his Republican challenger, Monica De La Cruz, in what had long been a Democratic stronghold in the south of the state. Gonzalez won with just 6,588 more votes than De La Cruz. When state Republicans redrew the 15th District during the redistricting process last year to make it more competitive, Gonzalez decided to run in the safer 34th Congressional District instead. But De La Cruz is sticking with the 15th, and she’s performing well in tonight’s GOP primary, with 57.4 percent of the vote, according to the New York Times (the Democratic race, meanwhile, will likely go to a run off). De La Cruz has embraced the Big Lie, claiming that mail-in ballots provided opportunities for fraud and questioned her loss in 2020.