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Gromer Jeffers Jr., political writer. Two candidates, Kronda Thimesch and Nancy Cline, have filed as GOP challengers. 

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   font-size: 16px !important; In Texas, the state legislature is responsible for drafting both congressional and state legislative district plans. Voters aged 70 and older can use an expired ID card regardless of how long ago the ID expired. In order to run with a major political party, a candidate must file an application with the county or state party chair and pay a filing fee. As of October 2020[update], there are three living former senators from Texas. Valid forms of identification differ by state. [14][15], The declaration must be accompanied by either a filing fee or a nominating petition signed by a certain number of qualified voters. 
 
Bob has covered state government and politics for The Dallas Morning News since 2002. The following list of accepted ID was current as of November 2019. Texas does not practice automatic voter registration. [5], State-qualified minor parties nominate candidates by convention. The district stretches to Waco, Sessions’ childhood home, and where his father served as a federal judge before his tenure as FBI director. 								Margarita Ruiz Johnson, Borris Miles (i) A half-dozen senior Republicans decided not to seek reelection -- a mass departure that reflects the party’s long odds of reclaiming the majority it lost last year. There was one open seat where the incumbent legislator did not file for re-election in 2020. 
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 Todd became Washington Bureau Chief in 2009 and has covered East Texas, Dallas City Hall and politics since joining The News in 1989. If the secretary determines that a voter on the registration list is deceased or has been excused or disqualified from jury service because the voter is not a citizen, the secretary shall send notice of the determination to the voter registrar of the counties considered appropriate by the secretary. The Texas State Senate is one of 86 state legislative chambers holding elections in 2020.There are 99 chambers throughout the country. Texas does not allow same-day voter registration. .thirdpartyname:not(:first-child) { Eleven Republicans are vying to replace former Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway, R-Midland. } West, 67, has served in the Texas Senate since 1993, where his focus has been on improving public education and criminal justice reform. 
 
The 2020 Democratic primary to challenge U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who is widely expected to win his own primary, has been muddied from the start.The list of candidates on the ballot is long, but the contenders have struggled to distinguish themselves. 
 
In Laredo, Rep. Henry Cuellar, the Democrat with the most pro-Republican voting record in the House, faces a challenge from the left in the primary. “But safe to say 22 [that were] within single digits” in the 2018 U.S. Senate race are in play. 
} Incumbents are marked with an (i) after their name. Texas requires voters to present photo identification while voting.[29]. 
 
A primary was scheduled for March 3, 2020, and a primary runoff was scheduled for July 14, 2020. Texas was admitted to the United States on December 29, 1845 and elects its U.S. senators to Class 1 and Class 2. A total of 27 Democrats, 7 Republicans, and 1 Liberal Republican have served or are serving as U.S. senators from Texas. In the Texas House, both parties are raising millions of dollars to fight for control. McDowell faces a half-dozen other Democrats vying for the seat, including Kim Olson, the party’s 2018 nominee for state agriculture commissioner and a retired Air Force colonel; Candace Valenzuela, a Carrollton-Farmers Branch school board member. } By signing up you agree to our privacy policy, Stand with us in our mission to discover and uncover the story of North Texas. We know that’s going to translate into millions of dollars.”. In this Dallas-area district, Rep. Kenny Marchant, R-Coppell, is calling it quits after eight terms and a near-miss last year, when he survived a challenge from Democrat Jan McDowell by just 3 points. “Generally, we talk in millions and millions,” she said. Elections for the office of Texas State Senate will take place in 2020. .candidate:last-child { } [25] The review was halted by a federal judge in February 2019, and Secretary of State David Whitley rescinded the advisory in April. The five Dallas Democrats who flipped Republican seats will also be high on the GOP’s target list. In the Texas Panhandle, where former House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Clarendon, is retiring after 13 terms, former White House physician Ronny Jackson filed Monday for one of the most reliably Republican seats in the country. Appointed to finish Gramm's term, having been elected to the next term. 
 
Jackson is one of 14 Republicans chasing that nomination. 	padding-bottom: 5px; On August 30, 2012, a three-judge panel in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia unanimously struck down the voter ID law. Stickland, a polarizing figure even among Republicans, has said he will not seek re-election and it is unclear whether his retirement will make the Democrats’ task easier or harder. [7][8][9][10][11], To run as an independent, a candidate must file a declaration of intent with the county judge (county or precinct offices) or the Texas Secretary of State (district and state offices) during the same filing period as major and minor party candidates. Of 25 Republicans in the House at 2021 inauguration, only 11, at most, will still be in office when the next president is sworn in. [21], To register to vote in Texas, an applicant must be a United States citizen, a resident of the county in which he or she is registering, and at least 17 years and 10 months old. “Now that the field is set, you won’t have people taking a wait-and-see approach. 
 
} In states that permit early voting, a voter does not have to provide an excuse for being unable to vote on election day. Texas does not permit online voter registration. But instead of seeking a rematch against Allred, he has turned his sights on a safe GOP seat being vacated by Rep. Bill Flores, R-Bryan. The outcomes of the 2020 election cycle in Texas stand to influence the state's redistricting process following the 2020 census. But she’ll have to get by attorney Rick Walker in the primary before she can set her sight on Ramos. Tzintzún Ramirez, 37, is a Chicana/Mexican American organizer who co-founded the Workers Defense Project and founded the Hispanic advocacy group called Jolt. Sri Kulkarni, who fell short by 5 percentage points last year against Olson, is favored to win the Democratic nomination. To view data for a district, click on the appropriate bar below to expand it. 
 
 
Texas voters will elect state senators in 16 of the 31 state senate districts. The filing deadline was December 9, 2019. Angie Chen Button, the other Republican in Dallas County, will face a rematch against Brandy K. Chambers, who she edged out by just a little more than 1,100 votes. .candidateListTablePartisan td { In Tarrant, Democrats will look to get over the hump in House District 92, in which they were within 3 percentage points of beating Republican incumbent Jonathan Stickland, who failed to get 50% of the vote in the district. On April 27, 2018, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued a 2-1 ruling reversing the earlier district court order that had barred the state from enforcing the provisions of its voter ID law. The reality is it’s a different deal than it was two years ago,” he said. Class 2 U.S. senators belong to the electoral cycle that has recently been contested in 1996, 2002, 2008, and 2014. .thirdpartyname { A total of 16 seats out of the chamber's 31 seats are up for election in 2020.