Surprises Likely In Texas Primary Races
A member of the Bush dynasty, a history-making feat, heavyweights trying to survive, and winter weather. Primary elections in Texas on Tuesday figure to be anything but ordinary.
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A member of the Bush dynasty, a history-making feat, heavyweights trying to survive, and winter weather. Primary elections in Texas on Tuesday figure to be anything but ordinary.
Gov. Rick Perry returned to Iowa for a visit that he said was focused on helping the state's governor seek re-election -- and not on a potential 2016 presidential bid of his own.
Gov. Rick Perry is returning to Iowa on Thursday for a two-day visit that includes stops in the Des Moines suburbs and a meeting with business leaders in Davenport.
A federal court ruling has fueled debate across the nation. A judge on Wednesday struck down the Texas ban on same-sex marriage, calling it unconstitutional.
Mitt Romney rallied with Kid Rock and President George W. Bush had a fan in Alice Cooper. But a Ted Nugent encore in the Texas governor's race is growing unlikely after blowback from Republican Greg Abbott's embrace of the ultimate shock rocker.
Several candidates for Texas statewide offices, as well as Gov. Rick Perry, are set to speak and meet with veterans of foreign wars at their winter meeting in Austin on Friday.
Gov. Rick Perry is defending Colorado and Washington's legalization of marijuana as a states' rights issue -- and says he wants to keep minor drug offenders out of jail.
Officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety are joining law enforcement agents around the nation in observing National Amber Alert Awareness Day on Monday.
State Sen. Wendy Davis will appear in North Texas to discuss education proposals for her campaign for governor.
Some of the most prominent politicians and business people in the state came together Thursday in Dallas to remember billionaire and business legend Harold Simmons.
Gov. Rick Perry said that the nation's new health care law has dampened the optimism that he normally feels with the new year. Texas has the highest rate of uninsured Americans.
Forget whether Hillary Clinton could win the White House in 2016. Women still have yet to run many statehouses. But two Texas Democrats are going for a new kind of history.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry will visit the home turf of a potential presidential rival to headline a fundraiser that's part of a strong push by Kentucky Republicans to flip control of the state House in their favor in 2014.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is putting new emphasis on education in his campaign to replace Gov. Rick Perry.
Gov. Rick Perry will be a featured speaker at an annual three-day gathering of Republican officials in Virginia. Perry is scheduled to speak on Saturday, December 7.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is calling for big-tent inclusiveness among Republicans, and suggesting that his party needs to be the "responsible adults in the room and actually govern."
This time, there were no media throngs or fawning Republicans awaiting his arrival. But Texas Gov. Rick Perry's return to Iowa sounded much like an appeal for a second chance.
The rollout of the Affordable Care Act did not go as planned. But on Wednesday, President Barack Obama will be in Dallas to thank the volunteers who have been educating the uninsured.
A new poll shows that U.S. Senator Ted Cruz would beat out Governor Rick Perry, Congressman Paul Ryan and Senator Marco Rubio in a Republican Presidential Primary in Texas.
Voters have a final day to cast ballots early for Tuesday's election on nine proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution.
Leaders of the state's $3 billion cancer agency are returning to the Texas Capitol, but this time under better circumstances than the last time.
Gov. Rick Perry plans to cast his ballot as part of early voting. The Republican is scheduled to vote Wednesday at the Austin Public Library's Howson Branch.
The top two candidates for governor will address the Texas' largest law enforcement union.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is seeking the Republican nomination for Texas Governor, is to address the Texas Association of Realtors in Austin on Thursday.
Gov. Rick Perry is again urging voters to approve an amendment to the Texas Constitution that would use $2 billion from the state's rainy day fund to pay for major water infrastructure projects.
