Voters in three states headed to the polls for the first primary day of the 2026 midterm elections on Tuesday, with the big story being a pair of Texas Senate primaries that both seemed to break quite well for Democrats’ majority hopes.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) will head to a runoff against Texas’s hard-right, scandal-ridden Attorney General Ken Paxton in a race that risks costing Republicans a Senate seat in a state where they hav...

Tuesday evening, Cornyn secured roughly 41.9 percent of the vote while Paxton came away with 40.7 percent.