As has happened since 1980, Republicans win in Texas. With 84% of the votes counted, former President Trump wins the election in this State with 57% of the votes, while Kamala Harris takes 42%. Polls for the 2024 presidential election already predicted it. According to the average of polls of FiveThirtyEightformer President Donald Trump led voting intentions in this territory with 51.2%, seven percentage points above current Vice President Kamala Harris, who had 44.1%.
Trump thus takes the 40 votes of the Electoral college Texan, the second with the most members after California, which has 54, but still insufficient to win the White House. A presidential candidate needs a majority of 270 electoral votes to claim victory, and the result of this election will depend directly on who wins in the hinge states. The battle for the White House comes down to what happens in Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Nevada.
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What was the result of the 2020 presidential election in Texas?
Texas has a fundamental influence on the Electoral College votes, but it is not considered a state in play: it is Republican territory. The last time Texans turned to a Democratic presidential candidate was in 1976, when Jimmy Carter won. In the 2020 election, Donald Trump won by 52.1%, while President Joe Biden received 46.5%.
People vote this Tuesday at a fire station in Houston, Texas.Danielle Villasana (Getty Images)
Result of the 2024 presidential elections
Of the 30 million Texans, more than eleven million were called to the polls this November 5 to choose between four candidates for the presidency. Below, the election result.
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Results of the elections for the federal Senate in Texas
Democrats currently have the majority in the Senate, but the election results on November 5 could change the political map of the Senate. Of the 100 seats in the Upper House of the United States Congress, 34 are at stake in these elections.
The Texas case became one of the most followed competitions of this election, marked by strong polarization between Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Democratic Representative Colin Allred. The first, who has been in the Senate for 12 years, has fought for his re-election by appealing to the powerful ultra-conservative base of the State. For his part, his rival, a former American football player turned civil rights lawyer, has restored optimism to Democratic Texans, who have not sent anyone to the Upper House since 1988. “I am the most bipartisan Texan in Congress, I am the complete opposite of Senator Ted Cruz, the most extreme in the Senate, perhaps the most radical in the last 30 years,” Allred said on the night of the debate between the candidates.
However, the criticism of the blue party was not enough because with 81% of the vote counted, the winner of the election is once again Ted Cruz, who is re-elected with 54.1% of the votes.
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