(The Center Square) – Republicans lost key statewide races across the board in Texas on Election Day.Â
From the governor to the heads of state agencies to the highest appellate courts, longtime conservative Republicans who’ve never lost a race before in their political careers were defeated, swept away in an anti-President Donald Trump blue tsunami.
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