The latest 2020 elections news from The Texas Tribune.
For his latest policy proposal, the Democratic presidential candidate returns to a cause he has championed since his days on the El Paso City Council. Full Story
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In this edition of the TribCast, Emma talks to Ross, Patrick and Alexa about the Democratic debate, background checks for stranger-to-stranger gun purchases and a Fort Worth woman who faces a five-year prison sentence for casting a ballot that didn’t count. Full Story
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The former Houston congressman and 2006 gubernatorial nominee makes it official after filing Federal Election Commission paperwork for the race in early summer. Full Story
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As a young child, Adams was frequently at her governor grandmother's side. Now she's continuing her family's political legacy. Full Story
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The Democratic presidential candidate's proposal has upended the gun debate nationwide, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in Texas. It's here that both parties are facing internal divisions as they work to respond to recent shootings in El Paso and Odessa. Full Story
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Lawmakers get jittery when it's time to redraw their political maps, and the exercise is based on a mix of power, party, clout, tenure — and trust. That last one is a fleeting quality in the Texas House right now. Full Story
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After falling to third in recent Texas polls, the Democratic presidential candidates barnstorms the suburbs that help tell the story of his breakthrough 2018 U.S. Senate campaign. Full Story
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The South Texas congressman cited the debate — during which Castro and Biden tangled — as he threw his support to the former vice president. Full Story
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Castro hasn’t always been a liberal darling on border issues: In 2013, he gave a full-throated endorsement of the border and immigration policies advocated by Obama and touted the completion of enforcement measures that included fencing along the U.S-Mexico border. Full Story
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Castro's rivals in the Democratic presidential primary offered mixed reactions to the tense tangle between him and the former vice president. Full Story
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Rodríguez, who was first elected in 2010 to represent Senate District 29, said he will retire from the Senate at the end of this term in January 2021. Full Story
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Add a word to the Republican vocabulary in Texas: November. After two decades of GOP dominance, the party's candidates are still winning, but they can't safely assume that they've got an election in the bag after they win the GOP's March primaries. Full Story
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State Rep. Briscoe Cain's tweet was taken as a death threat against a presidential candidate from a state that recently experienced two mass shootings. Full Story
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The showdown early in the debate came after Biden criticized the "Medicare for All" health care plan touted by U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Full Story
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The Democratic presidential candidate offered an unapologetic defense of his proposal to mandate buybacks of assault weapons. Full Story
ABC News and Univision will be broadcasting the debate with Beto O’Rourke, Julián Castro and eight other qualifying presidential candidates in Texas on Thursday. Full Story
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Texas could be key to helping the Democratic candidates clinch their party's nomination — even if they don't win the state's primary. Full Story
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The Houston native may have missed the cutoff for a presidential debate this week in her native city. But in Texas' liberal enclaves, she's built a small base of support all her own. Full Story
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O'Rourke slipped in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, which found Warren gaining ground with Texas Democratic voters. Full Story
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Hegar, an Air Force veteran, leads the field — but 66% of potential Democratic primary voters said either that they don’t know whom they’ll support or that they haven’t thought about it enough to have an opinion, according to a University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. Full Story
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