AUSTIN, TEXAS ¨C After record-high early voter turnout, Democrats hope Texas¡¯ primary election on Tuesday will show that anger over U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s policies could help them flip congressional seats from Republican control in November.
Democrats need to gain 24 seats nationwide to retake the U.S. House of Representatives, a feat that would allow the party to block the Republican president¡¯s legislative agenda.
In the first U.S. primary of the 2018 midterm election season, Texas Democrats were fielding their largest contingent of congressional and legislative candidates in a primary in several decades, and were encouraged the strong early turnout was a sign of electoral success to come in the most populous Republican-held state.
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