Survey: GOP, the Democratic primaries of the Texas Senate are wide open

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The democratic and republican primaries for the American Senate are wide open, according to a recent survey on the state scale, which found that many Texas voters are either undecided or support candidates who have not actually participated in the race.

On the GOP side, the outgoing senator John Corny leads the prosecutor General Ken Paxton, 32% at 26%, 29% of registered voters who have not yet decided for whom they will vote, a survey published on Friday by Texas Public Opinion Research.

The hypothetical democratic primary of the investigation was titled by the former American representative Beto O’Rourke and the American representative Jasmine Crockett, who were both speculated as possible candidates but did not announce that they were looking for appointment. O’Rourke led with 27% of hypothetical votes and Crockett followed with 26%, well in advance on the two main candidates of the race, the former member of the Congress of Dallas Colin Allred and the representative of the State James Talarico.

So far, a large part of the attention has focused on republican primary, where until last month, each survey had shown Cornyn by dragging its challenger. The results of the survey published on Friday were the first who showed Cornyn with an advance of several percentage points on Paxton – another sign that the margins have shrunk in a race that Paxton once put comfortably. The two candidates compete for the approval of President Donald Trump, whose support could prove to be decisive for one or the other Republican.

“We have a fluid race and a figure on the republican side and these two candidates will be doing so for a while,” said the Slingshot strategies survey, Evan Roth Smith, who conducted the survey for non -partisan research of Texas public opinion, survey 843 voters registered from August 27 to August 29.

In the democratic match hypothesis, O’Rourke and Crockett each received roughly the support of Allred, a former NFL secondary and the candidate of the Democratic Senate of 2024, who won 13% of the votes. Seven percent of the respondents said they would vote for Talarico, a Democrat in Austin who launched his candidacy for the Senate on Tuesday.

O’Rourke said in a July interview on CNN that he did not yet know if he planned to appear in the Senate. He previously said that he would plan to run if it was “what the inhabitants of Texas wanted”.

Crockett, a Dallas Democrat in the second term, said that she would plan to appear in the Senate if she saw data showing that she would be competitive in a general election, Dallas Morning News reported earlier this week. For the moment, Crockett has said that it focuses on the selection of the Dallas region, after the Republican legislators adopted a new redistribution card which pushed it in a neighboring district.

The survey revealed that Talarico was the least known to the least current or potential Democratic candidates questioned, with 61% of voters saying that they had never heard of him. Only 21% of respondents said they had never heard of Allred, whose recognition of the name of his 2024 race could contribute to his advance on Talarico in the survey, said Smith.

Eighteen percent of the Democrats said they were undecided in the hypothetical primary. This means that around three -quarters of the voters interviewed were undecided or said that they would vote for someone who had not participated in the race, which could allow a certain number of candidates to take control of the electorate carried out for the grabs.

The Texas Democratic voters are looking for a candidate who is a fighter, said Smith, adding that O’Rourke and Crockett have already proven himself to adapt to the label. If they do not enter the field, the Democrats already in the race will have to assert the voters that they can carry out a vigorous and energetic general electoral campaign, he said.

“You have a democratic primary that feels wide open with many different possibilities,” said Smith.

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