After months of intense fighting, the Texas Republican Senate primary has been called: incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and MAGA attorney general Ken Paxton are headed to a runoff.

The runoff election will be held on May 26, with early voting beginning on May 18.

Cornyn, the incumbent senator, has been locked in a bitter struggle with Paxton, the longtime attorney general of Texas known for his bombastic MAGA rhetoric and his long history of personal and professional scandals. Cornyn attempted to fend off the challenge by repeatedly touting his record of voting with President Donald Trump.

Cornyn called Paxton "dead weight" for the Republican Party in a statement to reporters.

The third figure in the race, Hunt, was a complicating variable who threatened to spoil the race for either candidate. In later parts of the cycle, Cornyn trained his attacks on Hunt as well, pointing out how many times he was absent from major votes on the campaign trail.

Republicans have carried every statewide race in Texas since 1994. Democrats have attempted in several cycles to make the state competitive, but have fallen short each time.

On the Democratic side, the primary between U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico attracted heavy national interest and massive turnout on a scale not seen since the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.

The leader of the North Carolina Senate, Phil Berger, widely seen as one of the most powerful Republicans in the state, may have just lost a tough challenge from Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page in what would be a stunning upset Tuesday night.

Paige took the lead in the shocking election by just two votes, and the results are almost certainly going to be challenged in court.

Berger ran the most powerful office in the state and had Trump's endorsement, millions in backing, and the entire Republican establishment behind him. He has served as Senate president pro tempore since Republicans seized control of the legislature in 2011.

Meanwhile, Page raised just $45,000 through the end of 2025. He ran as an outsider in a year when the political establishment has become a liability. He ran on the message that Berger became too comfortable in Raleigh, too insulated from the people he was supposed to represent, and too much a creature of the donor class that bankrolled him.

Voters responded by throwing Berger out Tuesday night in a historic political collapse. The News and Observer noted the winner of Tuesday’s Republican primary in the right-leaning district would become the overwhelming favorite to win in November.

A Texas Democrat alleged in a speech to her supporters on Tuesday night that "people were disenfranchised" during the primary election.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) faced off against state Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat, in a heated primary election on Tuesday night. It was one of the first elections under Texas's new election laws, which changed the polling locations for many voters. A lower-court judge ordered that election locations in Dallas remain open for an additional two hours due to the confusion, according to reports. But the Texas Supreme Court blocked the extended voting hours.

Even so, Crockett told her supporters at a watch party that "people were disenfranchised," The Associated Press reported.

Crockett also said the election results won't be known until all the votes in Dallas, her home, are counted. At the time Crockett spoke, Talarico held a roughly 75,000-ballot lead with about 60% of precincts reporting.