“With one day of early voting to go, turnout in the Democratic primary had nearly doubled since the last midterm election in 2014,” the Dallas Morning News reports.
In contrast, early voting for the Republican primary is up just 18%.
“Political experts attribute much of Texas’ increased voter turnout as a reaction to the election of President Trump in 2016, as well as the state’s eight open congressional seats.”
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