Texas Republicans sweating over low turnout in early voting

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNBC DFW reported more than four and a half million Texans voted in the first seven days of early voting.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat sounds like good news. Who's ahead?

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorDemocrats, by one hundred fifteen thousand votes among people who'd already voted. At this point in the last midterm, Republicans led by four hundred thousand.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA four-hundred-thousand lead that has become a flexible starting position. Very agile.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHow big is the whole turnout?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAs of October thirtieth, six million eight hundred ninety-seven thousand four hundred Texans had voted.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorKSAT puts the total at seven point four million, about thirty-nine percent turnout.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo who are these voters? Because I'd want to know before I printed any yard signs.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAmong in-person early votes, thirty-six point nine percent came from people with no primary history. Thirty-one percent came from Republican primary voters.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo the biggest group is people nobody has a file on.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAxios San Antonio says Dallas County turnout was twenty-three percent and Travis County twenty-five, ahead of Montgomery and Nueces counties at eighteen.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd the Senate race is Republican Ken Paxton against Democrat James Talarico, right?

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRight. And Republicans have an argument. Ryan said two million reliable Republican primary voters haven't voted yet.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwo million. That's a lot of people to be counting on to wake up.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRice professor Mark Jones said warning bells would ring in the Abbott campaign if Republican counties lag by midweek.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorDid the bells ring?

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNobody in our reporting says. In-person early voting ended Friday, so now it's Election Day and the two million.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo the one-sentence version: Democrats are ahead in early voting, and Republicans are counting on voters who haven't voted yet.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEight out of ten for suspense, and a solid hold on the outcome.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe campaign has two million reliable voters it hasn't met yet, and a text message to go with it.