Talarico gets more votes than Hillary, Kamala: 4 midterm election shockers in Texas
Quick Summary
- James Talarico received more votes than Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton.
- Democrats won every statewide race and Republican incumbents lost all state high court races.
- Republican-aligned groups outspent Democrats on ads in every statewide race but still lost.
1. Republicans lost every statewide race on the ballot
Texas experienced a historic political realignment as Democrats captured every statewide executive office contested on the ballot, breaking a statewide losing streak of statewide losses that had lasted since 1994.
The governor’s race produced one of the biggest upsets in Texas history: Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa unseated three-term Republican incumbent Greg Abbott by more than 7 percentage points, 52.8% to 45.7%. Abbott is the first incumbent Texas governor to lose reelection since Democrat Ann Richards in 1994.
The partisan rout reached all the way to Texas’ judicial races, where every Republican incumbent seeking reelection to the state’s highest courts also went down to defeat.
Ian M. Giatti is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ian.giatti@christianpost.com.
