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Texas Voters Head to Polls in Highly Anticipated Primaries
Texas voters flocked to polling sites on Tuesday during the state’s first primaries of the 2026 midterms. This is the first election since Texas Republicans redrew congressional maps to add five more Republican-leaning seats.
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“We’re Just excited. It’s amazing how many people you actually see out here.” “Basically, everything that’s been going on this past year and a half, I’m fed up with all the lies and manipulations and the left versus right, and I don’t agree with that at all. It’s not left and right. It’s rich versus poor. I don’t agree with our leaders.” “I’ve been a pro-Trump since the beginning, since Day 1. And we’re very excited to have so many Democrats that were before are now turning over to the Republican Party. And I’ve had conversations with a lot of people that they’re turning over to the Republican Party. And I want to say it even happened in the last election cycle.” “Their business is directly being affected. And some of them were Trump supporters, voted for him twice, and now they’re seeing their businesses impacted. And there’s — kind of having that buyer’s remorse. I think it would take a lot of education and more pain until someone gets directly impacted, that seems like that’s when they actually start caring, which is kind of sad to see. It’s a very emotional thing at this point, right? Where my calm and collected self would say Talarico is more of what needs to happen moving forward to unify the country as a whole. But we’re not even there, right? I think sometimes I get so emotional that I’m like, no, we definitely need the Crocketts of the Democratic Party to step forward and do more, right, because clearly laws are not being followed. Norms are not being followed.”

By Jamie Leventhal, Jeremy Raff and Ivan Narez Hurtado
March 3, 2026
