Day: November 5, 2024

Salazar has strong lead as early voting results come in.

He has been in the Texas Senate since 2013. 

It’s still too early to tell exactly what’ll happen with the six propositions that’ll decide the fate of San Antonio, but early voters favored all six. Among the decisions left up to voters: substantial pay raises for San Antonio City Council and the mayor, eliminating pay caps and term limits for the city manager, and increasing term limits for City Council members.

Election Day results haven’t hit the Bexar County Elections Department just yet, as there are still voters making their way through polling sites an hour and a half after ques were cut off, but early voters – which make up the large majority of ballots – are saying yes to the City Council proposals.

Anywhere from 320,000 to 340,000 San Antonio residents voted on the six propositions, with most receiving strong support from early voters. However, two of the more controversial charter amendments, the nixing of city manager limitations and extended council terms, are too close to call before all polling place results are in.

The city charter amendments included propositions around the city manager and city council term limits and pay, political activity for city employees and more. Here’s a look at the results for the six San Antonio city charter amendments that were on the November 5 general election ballot. 

Proposition C aimed to allow San Antonio City Council to set terms of city manager’s employment after a 2018 charter amendment set both a pay limit and a term limit for the city manager. 

Early voters favored Proposition C  with 53.59% of the vote. 

According to a previous report, city officials have downplayed the impact of the proposed amendment, which…

Election forecasters called the De La Cruz-Vallejo race one of the most competitive in Texas.

The Spurs announced the forward suffered the injury in the team’s match vs. the Clippers.

It’s here. It’s finally Election Day.

Donald Trump is expected to win Texas, according to polls. But the Lone Star state is still hotly competitive, and the results of elections up and down the ballot will have significant consequences to the balance of power in Congress, the state’s judiciary and Texas’ political landscape.

Meanwhile, legislative and local elections could impact the kinds of state laws and local ordinances that will be pushed and passed in the coming years. Policy including public school education and abortion access could be affected by the votes cast by Texans.

Here are five things to watch in Texas on Election Day

Nov. 5, 2024 at 5:52 p.m.

How does Trump perform in Texas?

All eyes are at the top of the ticket where Trump is trying to return to the White House after his loss to Democrat Joe Biden four years ago. The race is neck and neck in key swing states but Trump is expected to carry Texas, which last voted for a Democrat for president in 1976 when the state went for Jimmy Carter.

But Democrats looking for a silver lining will be watching the margin of victory and hoping that a good performance by Vice President Kamala Harris will give them enough fuel to put Texas squarely in the battleground state conversation next cycle.

Since 2012, the margin of victory for the Republican presidential candidates has been steadily dropping in Texas. Romney won the state by 16 percentage points that year. Four years later, Trump won the state by 9 points. In 2020, Trump won again, but by 5.6 points.

If the margin of victory narrows further, Texas Democrats…

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