As you will notice, we have lots of elections in Texas and across the United States.
What's happening today is the runoff for the party primaries. The purpose of to finalize who will represent each party in the November general elections. Republicans vote in the Republican Primary, Democrats vote in the Democratic Primary.
Each party in Texas uses primary elections to determine their candidates for public office. These were held earlier in the year, but Texas requires a majority vote to win. That means the winner has over 50% of the vote. If no candidate gets a majority, the top two candidates face each other in a runoff.
Again, that's what's happening today.
Actually, it has been happening the previous two weeks since Texas allows for early voting.
For more:
- 6 things to watch in Texas’ primary runoff election.
