Decision 2026
Congressman August Pfluger leads his Democratic challenger Claire Reynolds by 42,850 votes at midnight, per the New York Times. The race stands at 128,100 for Pfluger, 85,250 for Reynolds.
The recently gerrymandered district picked up counties in south Texas, which appear to have turned full blue. But it likely won’t be enough to topple the deep Permian Basin Republican base.
In 2020, 291,773 voted in the race for TX-11, where August Pfluger beat his democratic challenger Jon Mark Hogg.
This year, 213,350 voters cast their ballots. That makes a difference of -78,423 voters compared to 2020.
In TX-23, our neighboring district, 213,371 votes have come in as of publish. The Democratic challenger Katy Padilla Stout leads against the Republican upstart Brandon Herrera by a margin of who has made no friends for himself on the campaign trail, referring to women in derogatory manners.
