Gabby Birenbaum | The Texas Tribune
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Immigration officials denied the allegations, but Reps. Joaquin Castro and Veronica Escobar said they鈥檝e come across numerous problematic examples. -
The poll found the Austin Democrat with a commanding lead among independents and a surprising edge with non-college-educated voters, who have consistently favored Republicans. -
Paxton's campaign said he plans to debate after Talarico challenged him to do so, though it did not commit to a specific host. -
The Republican National Committee has not yet announced the midterm convention or its location, but it has teased the event as an opportunity to put Trump on the ballot. -
Dan Cogdell, who represented Paxton for nearly a decade in two high-profile cases, said his former client 鈥渉as lost sight of his core mission.鈥� -
John Cornyn is trying to fend off Ken Paxton. Both parties are picking attorney general nominees. And an oil and gas regulatory race has become uncharacteristically costly. -
The Austin Democrat, who won his party鈥檚 nomination in March, led Cornyn and Paxton by margins of 3 and 5 percentage points, respectively. Both results were within the survey鈥檚 margin of error. -
Both Republican candidates lagged far behind Democratic candidate James Talarico. -
The Austin Democrat鈥檚 haul is the largest-ever sum for a Senate candidate 鈥� in any state 鈥� in the first quarter of an election year. -
The president could still weigh in over the next seven weeks. But his inaction before last month鈥檚 dropout deadline has only hardened the rivalry. -
The day after the March 3 primary, President Donald Trump pledged to endorse either John Cornyn or Ken Paxton 鈥渟oon,鈥� and call on the other to drop out. He has yet to make an endorsement. -
On the Republican side, Ken Paxton and John Cornyn were neck-and-neck and in position for a runoff, according to the poll from the University of Texas鈥� Texas Politics Project.
