Mitt Romney won the district in 2012 with 64% of the vote to Barack Obama’s 34%. Democrats had $26.7 million.In some races, the outsized financial reserves will amount to little, thanks to precisely drawn congressional lines intended to reinforce Republican incumbent protection. Lean : These are considered competitive races, but one party has an advantage. Get real-time 2018 Texas House election results & live maps by district. By comparison, his Democratic competitor, MJ Hegar, had about $900,000 and likely depleted that sum in the final weeks of her runoff against state Sen. Situated entirely in North Texas' Collin County, it has been a longtime undisputed GOP stronghold. The candidates who replace them on the ballot raised and spent big money in their primaries and are only now turning to the general election. OpenSecrets.org coverage of the Texas Congressional races being held in 2020 In most retirements, incumbents spend their last year or so in office cutting back on fundraising and political activity.
Republicans are expected to respond in kind but the difference is, before 2018, these Democratic groups mostly ignored the state, save for the Texas 23rd Congressional District in west Texas.This year, the spending will be in every major media market.The reasons for the deficit are more complicated than mere complacency on the Republican side.A handful of Republican members who hold top committee positions or are running for those slots — U.S. Reps. And about a year ago, some of the biggest Republican fundraisers in the delegation announced their retirements. The second quarter reports often mark a high point in cash-on-hand sums before candidates drain it all during the fall television advertising season.This new Democratic cash sloshing around the state is being spent on staff payroll, printing shops and even direct mail and polling — all of which could well make a Democratic presence known in otherwise ignored deeply GOP pockets of the state.The heart of the disparity exists in five U.S. House district races: The Two are races with Democratic incumbents, U.S. Reps. Democrat Incumbent Lizzie Fletcher is running for re-election in 2020. Those reports are among the most critical in the cycle. There was U.S. Rep. But in 2018, U.S. Sen. Taylor took that race seriously, advertising on broadcast television, and he has over $1 million in cash on hand this year.Should a Democratic wave hit the state in the fall, Seikaly will already have poll-tested messaging and located vendors to potentially take advantage of the environment. Take the state's 3rd Congressional District. Toss Up : These are the most competitive; either party has a good chance of winning. For permission to reprint for commercial uses, At a time when newsroom resources and revenue across the country are declining, The Texas Tribune remains committed to sustaining our Support for a Republican representative in Iowa's 4th congressional district exceeds support for a Democrat by 22%, according to …