DALLAS — On the first day of early voting in Texas in late October, the line to see Beto O’Rourke near a polling place in East Dallas snaked over wet grass in an occasionally torrential rain. Mr. O’Rourke, a political celebrity vying to become the first Democratic governor of Texas in decades, was buoyant. So…
In much of the United States, it’s hot out there. Still. Many parts of the Central Plains and Texas are under heat advisories and warnings this weekend and will be well into next week in what is already a historically — and relentless — hot summer, forecasters with the National Weather Service said. It might…
Beto O’Rourke set a new Texas fund-raising record for state office with a $27.6 million haul over four months in the governor’s race, his campaign announced on Friday, saying that it had outpaced Gov. Greg Abbott, the Republican incumbent, in the tightening contest. But the campaign of Mr. Abbott, who still holds a cash-on-hand advantage…
The Republican Party in Texas made a series of far-right declarations as part of its official party platform over the weekend, claiming that President Biden was not legitimately elected, issuing a “rebuke” to Senator John Cornyn for his work on bipartisan gun legislation and referring to homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice.” The platform was…