Headline Roundup • March 2nd, 2022
Abbott, O'Rourke Win in 2022 Texas Primaries
2022 Elections,Elections,2022 Texas Gubernatorial Election,2022 Texas Attorney General Election,Beto O'Rourke,Greg Abbott
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Tuesday was primary day in Texas, as Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Congressman Beto O'Rourke (D) defeated their primary opponents. Abbott and O'Rourke will face each other on November 8th in the race for governor of Texas.
Meanwhile, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush (R), grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, will face Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton in a May 24 runoff election after neither candidate captured 50% of the vote. In addition, Austin city councilman and progressive Greg Casar beat out Democratic state Rep. Eddie Rodriguez.
Most right-rated and left-rated media sources agree that the 2022 midterm elections, such as the ones in Texas, will serve as a referendum on the first half of Joe Biden's presidency.
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Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will face Democratic former Congressman Beto O’Rourke in the November general election for governor after the pair won their respective primaries.
Abbott, who received endorsement from former President Donald Trump and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, easily won his party’s nomination for governor, as did O’Rourke, the state’s most prominent Democrat, who is seeking to become the first Democratic governor of Texas in nearly three decades.
According to a race call from The Associated Press (AP), Abbott topped the 50 percent mark he needed to prevent a...
Reuters
Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Democrat Beto O'Rourke won their parties' gubernatorial nominations on Tuesday, as the state's first-in-the-nation primary contests kicked off the race to the Nov. 8 general election.
Abbott, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, easily turned back several right-wing challengers. He is favored to beat O'Rourke, who is seeking to become the first Democratic governor of Texas in nearly three decades.
Texas voters were also selecting their parties' nominees on Tuesday for the U.S. House of Representatives. The results could offer clues about...
Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune
The candidates who survived Tuesday’s primary elections — and won’t face runoff elections in May — now start all over again, raising money, researching their opponents and trying to build up the organizations and support that will get them through the November general election.
The race at the top of the ticket was all but a foregone conclusion, with well-known and well-financed candidates on both the Republican side, in Gov. Greg Abbott, and the Democratic side, in Beto O’Rourke.
Abbott and O’Rourke have had their eyes on November from the start,...
