Nearly $100 million spent on campaign advertising for Texas Senate seat, report says
Texas Senate race heats up: Cornyn trails Paxton as $98 million+ spent, runoff looms and campaigns gear up for November showdown.
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Jack is as passionate about reporting today as he was when he first began his broadcast journalism career about 35 years ago.
He covers politics for CBS News Texas and hosts the weekly show Eye On Politics, which airs at 7:30 Sunday morning on CBS News Texas Channel 11 and is streamed through the CBS News app and Pluto TV at the same time.
Jack joined CBS News Texas in September 2003.
He regularly interviews Republican and Democratic elected officials, and interviewed Joe Biden when he ran for President in 2020 and former President Donald Trump in 2018 and when he was a candidate in 2016.
While Jack loves covering politics, he has also worked on investigative stories and covered numerous hurricanes and tornado outbreaks.
He won an Emmy Award for his investigative report on DFW Airport spending, and Texas Associated Press awards for his stories about the previous indictments against former Governor Rick Perry, his coverage of the federal courts in Dallas and his weather coverage.
Before moving to North Texas, Jack reported for television stations in Orlando, Southern California, Fort Myers-Naples and Utica, New York.
He began his journalism career in Syracuse, where he was an anchor and reporter at WHEN-AM.
Jack has been happily married for more than 30 years to Amy, who is a former morning news anchor at radio station KLIF-AM in Dallas. They are the proud parents of two amazing daughters.
Jack and Amy both graduated from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
While they still bleed Orange, they love Texas and are happy to call the Lone Star State home.
Texas Senate race heats up: Cornyn trails Paxton as $98 million+ spent, runoff looms and campaigns gear up for November showdown.
On day one of early voting, Ken Paxton told John Cornyn to "come home" as their heated GOP Senate primary battle intensifies.
Early voting runs from Tuesday until Friday, Feb. 27.
It is one of two Democratic majority districts in North Texas after the 32nd Congressional District was redrawn to have a majority of Republicans.
"We're going up against billionaire megadonors. We're going up against the establishment in both political parties."
"I offered him a chance to apologize, and he declined to do that," said Allred.
Democrat Taylor Rehmet beat Republican Leigh Wambsganss in the special runoff election for the open state Senate District 9 seat.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller dismissed Gov. Greg Abbott's endorsement of his Republican challenger, Nate Sheets.
A major dust-up between two high-profile Texas Democrats is making waves across the country.
On Saturday night, Rehmet won the special runoff election by 14 percentage points, 57-43%.
When Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Dallas decided to run for U.S. Senate, it created an opening for the midterm election.
In a rare move, Governor Greg Abbott recently endorsed a challenger in a statewide race over the incumbent.
Gov. Abbott fired off a strongly worded letter to AG Ken Paxton, urging him to strip CAIR of its nonprofit status and eliminate its ability to operate in Texas.
Democrats call the upset a warning sign for the GOP, saying Rehmet's victory shows voters are rejecting Republican policies even in longtime strongholds.
Democrat and Republican candidates face off in a nationally watched runoff that both parties see as a test of voter mobilization.