Overview
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told a conservative policy conference that Republicans face a tough fight to keep their Texas House majority this fall.
- He pressed John Cornyn and Ken Paxton to have the runoff loser endorse the winner to block Democrat James Talarico from capturing the U.S. Senate seat.
- Patrick argued that a fractured party can depress turnout, pointing to a January special election in a Trump-leaning Fort Worth–area district that a Democrat won.
- House Speaker Dustin Burrows rejected the idea that Republicans will lose the chamber, while agreeing the party must unify and turn out voters.
- Republicans hold 88 of 150 Texas House seats, leaving Democrats 14 flips from control, and Democrats’ campaign chief said they have never been closer.