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in five minutes the polls closed across
most of Texas but voters are going to be
casting ballots for a while longer
tonight there's a live look from HD
chopper 8 showing people still in line
in the Collin County Courthouse of the
McKinney good evening and welcome to
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update our broadcast audiences so bear
with us as we do that but first let's
get a lay of the land of what all we're
doing tonight and already just a few
minutes before polls closed in Texas
we're already seeing some results from
the East Coast or some of the other 14
states and Super Tuesday I've already
started calling the races over there
they have a big night for Joe Biden
early on yes the night is underway Texas
is gonna have its turn here in just a
couple of minutes we'll be getting those
early totals in Jason but as you see
we're already getting some coloring in
on the map tonight Vermont has already
been called this is no shocker at all
for senator Bernie Sanders that is of
course his home state Virginia has been
called for Vice President Joe Biden and
so has North Carolina now this North
Carolina at this point is just a
projection I don't think they actually
have any of the vote in there just yet
but what they're going on there is the
exit polling coming out of the actually
they do have some now being reported
there 35% to 23% for Bernie Sanders
interesting thing is here as we look at
the projections when we scroll over
these different states here you're gonna
see numbers pop up that show Sanders a
28 point margin we go down to Virginia
Joe Biden 32 point margin North Carolina
an 11 point margin at least in Virginia
anyway Joe Biden is way outperforming
what we have been seeing in the polling
we've been seeing polls saying that he
would do less than that in
jigna by 20 or by 15 points we're
looking at a 30 point spread that
they're projecting here early on so he's
out performing that already Bernie
Sanders on the other hand in Vermont
they're in his home state pulling less
of the vote than they thought he was
going to pull tonight in the most recent
polling so kind of an interesting
dynamic right out of the gates as you
know Jason because you were out there
Joe Biden picking up a lot of momentum
here in Dallas last night with these
other candidates endorsing yeah the past
24 hours have been huge for Biden or you
know arguably going into this Bernie
Sanders is probably the front-runner
after tonight who knows what's gonna
happen with the race but let's take a
closer look here at Vermont Jason was
talking about Bernie Sanders leading
here 52 percent of the vote this is only
with nine percent reporting Joe Biden
with 23 percent again that's not it yeah
and that's not a big hall even if he
does get that we're talking about 16
delegates there we have more than 1300
delegates up for grabs tonight so
Vermont you know any of these candidates
are gonna put anything in their pocket
that they can tonight but we're talking
about 13 delegates or sixteen delegates
there there there Virginia is a huge
prize that's 99 delegates so that is
substantial if Joe Biden can actually
pull that off tonight and again it's
projected that he will North Carolina
110 delegates so that's rich as well so
you know this would be a big haul for
Joe Biden to start the night Biden can
start with those two definitely here
this is the Virginia Virginia returns
here this is sixty percent reporting
keep in mind the polls closed there an
hour ago Joe Biden 55 percent Bernie
Sanders 23% those are huge numbers here
as you said if he can maintain that if
he can sustain this you know in the
states where he did well just know in
South Carolina last weekend then this
could be a huge night and could change
the the whole makeup of the race we
should also note here that Alabama is a
little bit slow with us right now
because their polls closed earlier
tonight at the same time that some of
these others did it's six o'clock our
time we still haven't seen anything pop
up there in Alabama don't know what's
happening as far as that goes that would
be another 52 delegates Joe Biden in the
polling has shown a lot of strength
there in the recent day so we're gonna
see this sort of march across again
we're going to be getting these numbers
the early
vote here in Texas in the next couple of
minutes that should start to populate
and we will be pulling that up through
here and taking you county by county
we'll also be comparing how the numbers
compared to years past because we've had
quite a turnout especially in some of
these large metro areas and you talked
about how the map was gonna march across
tonight keep in mind to you know bite is
doing well in the East Coast a lot of
people thought he might he was polling
well there Bernie Sanders is projected
to probably win here of California even
though we're a little ways from that the
thing watchin is how wide how spread how
wide is that spread going to be yeah you
actually sent this over to me earlier
today and this is really interesting
look at this California Democratic
primary right now Real Clear Politics
puts together all of these different
polls they're favoring Sanders by about
seven points let's just go back to
yesterday here
Sanders was favored in California by 19
points a 12 point difference just in one
day and what happened 24 hours ago right
here in Dallas a lot Democrats
consolidated around Joe Biden let's go
over here to the other part of our
studio we have experts from across North
Texas here with us to help us digest and
and get some context and perspective on
this right here Bernardin Steptoe the
political producer WFAA Bud Kennedy from
the Fort Worth star-telegram
Alana Rocha is from The Texas Tribune or
partners down in Austin and kimberlyn
King is from UNT helping us kind of make
sense of this it's 7:01 right now some
results should be coming in but let's
talk about we're seeing on the East
Coast and Camilla
Kimmy Lynn will start with you you
surprised at you this actually I think
that one of the things to highlight is
the fact that Biden is doing much better
than most had anticipated given the fact
that he had not been traveling in Super
Tuesday States until this last weekend
and so it's pretty clear that South
Carolina seems to have given him a
little bit of a bump how much of last
night really played into this do you
think Alana with the with Chlo Bashar
and with Budaj coming out saying we're
going to support Joe Biden I think you
have that coalition yeah getting behind
him you had a lot of people we've
reported at the Texas Tribune that we're
waiting to see how South Carolina played
out to wait you know seeing how fluid
this field is to wait to cast their
ballots till today so I'm really
interested to see
what the voting totals look like for
turning out on this election day and but
can it be pointed out something before
we got going here don't let the early
research early results fool you why not
bug Jason the earlier first of all
people had voting for two weeks before
you had this Democratic coalition you
had you had the the and then you have
this ballot that has all the people who
dropped out people are voting for Castro
I mean you have this long ballot of
names so well we won't be watching early
voting we'll be watching election day on
how that turns whether Joe Biden picks
that up and in the time we were talking
to bud there Bernardin The Associated
Press called Alabama for Joe Biden as
well is this the the restart of his
campaign the the changing of the race
tonight I think it's the continuation of
his campaign but remember he always said
that he would do well in the south and
he is so his projections are coming true
and I I somewhat agree with but when he
talks about early voting but keep in
mind that these people were voting long
before everything happened in South
Carolina and happened last night so this
could be even better news for bi because
he's winning the early voting in these
states and and he didn't even have all
of this boots last wouldn't they start
voting that's a good point let's talk
about that to Alana and Kim Yulin
because you know voters could see amy
klobuchar could see Pete Buddha judge to
see these other candidates who are not
you know in the race anymore but they
were on the ballot I think it's all come
down to electability right we saw Mike
Rawlings out here endorse Biden when the
two Texans were still in the race being
a work in Castro so I think that they
see Biden as the the best bet to you
know I never Trump or to out Trump from
office it kim Yulin if you're on the
Bernie Sanders campaign tonight you're
just saying hey just wait to California
what are you saying yeah you saying keep
an eye on things as we move across the
country move we move away from some of
those deep southern states don't forget
that Sanders has played well to a
certain East Coast kind of liberal so
you're gonna watch as we move across I
tell you Texas is really the state to
watch tonight she in many ways because
Sanders was up by such a large
percentage that no one
have ever anticipated in 2016
some of that's been cut into by buying
even just as recently within the last
two three days we're gonna spend a lot
of time on this side of the studio
tonight
want to go to Jason wheeler though with
some of the early vote totals here for
Texas yeah and you know while we get
into those early vote totals Jason can
you tap the brain trust over there I
don't know the answer to this if we
still have people who are standing in
line in line at these polling centers
which we do especially in Collin County
will the state release those early
voting totals and show which candidates
are getting that early vote will they
wait until everybody is in they usually
do I believe but is that the case we get
all the results yeah they usually do at
the top of the hour release the early
vote results alright well taken so long
there cuz we're a couple of minutes in
here we're ready to get this figured out
as to who those votes have been going to
let's get to the early vote numbers we
do know that right now we don't know
who's gotten all of these votes but we
know how many of them have been cast you
can see it broken down here on your
screen right in front of me we've got
Republicans there we've got Democrats
there and you can see neck-and-neck
we've had more than two million votes
cast two million eighty six thousand
seven hundred and eighty votes that is
just during early voting that has
nothing to do with the turnout that we
have had here in Texas today a lot of
ballots have been counted question is
who got them we should be finding that
out here in the next couple of minutes
let's go over here for a little bit of
perspective though while we're waiting
still for that map to start populating
to figure out where this is all going
this is just looking at the top 15 most
populous counties in the state because
that's how the state breaks these things
down and it gives us a good comparison
I'm gonna tell you right off the bat
ignore what you see over here on the
very right this is 2008 that was a crazy
year you'll remember we had Hillary
Clinton taking on Barack Obama in the
primary there we saw numbers like we
just haven't seen here in Texas so even
if we get rid of that outlier right
there look at 2012 you see here we have
a trend Republicans far out voting
Democrats by more than a hundred
thousand two hundred thousand or so 2016
that tightened just a little bit look at
what we're seeing here in 2020 now
though if we
just these top 15 counties which account
for a huge part of the vote in Texas
Democrats just surging well past what
we've seen with the Republican turnout
today
this is something that Democrats have
been looking for especially in certain
areas the firewall we always talk about
it Tarrant Collin and Denton counties
those have traditionally been ruby-red
very Republican you can see here if we
look back to 2012 there was a big
disparity 2016 big disparity 2020 look
at this almost on par the number of
votes being cast between Democrats and
Republicans
Denton still has a little way to go to
make that up gonna check this now to see
if we can refresh it and get into those
counties Jason gonna toss it back over
to you while we're looking at that all
right Jason we do have some vote totals
in right now the early vote totals let's
go ahead and take a look at some of
these numbers this is the Dallas County
early vote for US president here Joe
Biden and Bernie Sanders Kim Kimmy look
at this 27% to 25% of course Dallas
County what is this the last big blue
county before Kansas City is that right
but now the only blue county in Austin
and Kansas the only one here does it
does that indicate how close this night
might be yeah it is certainly an
indication and remember everybody's
staked a lot on what those suburban
voters are going to be doing and it may
be an indication that there's a little
bit more of a fight over the sole
especially for the female white suburban
voters this may be going a burny route
we'll see the soul of the party
Bernardin you surprised with those
numbers for Dallas County no I'm not
because keep in mind
Sanders put in a lot of resources here
and by dinner so a sandwich is paying
off but I think it's too early to start
talking about Dallas County yeah
here's Denton County the early vote
there Bernie Sanders way ahead thirty
two percent of the vote over of Vice
President Biden their party winning with
the younger voters in Denton County
Dallas County numbers almost Mary
Houston and really we're talking about
dividing up delegates really Sanders
invitin if they keep this rate will get
close to the same number of Delegates
and but it's neck-and-neck Biden just
barely leads and Harris
any of these number surprise you at all
look at this no I mean you know again I
don't think this tells the whole story
given what we've
so I'm really gonna be interested to see
when the today's results start coming in
no Nicole if we can get the third or
fourth name on there I'm curious what
Michael Bloomberg is doing - he spent
tens of millions of dollars in the state
advertising he was kind of polling at
what 10% and that's kind of what we
already saw him place in in Virginia or
North Carolina he's not % yeah yeah
typically he's in a solid range between
8 and 15 percent 15 if he's lucky if
he's lucky this is this is Dallas County
and the early vote shows that you know
someone else paid off 20 percent of the
vote there bud look at this yeah that my
goodness all that investment in
television advertising you're spending
money on TV pays off and he's you know
he's showing that you know he'll get he
needs to get some delegates that's what
he needs to do is he needs to come in
under the big 2 and pick up some
delegates so does Elizabeth Warren just
Bloomberg do that tonight in Texas yeah
he'll pick up some delegates in a couple
of Senate districts burning you know
this early vote is very interesting
because voters have been voting
primarily since January because you
could do the mail-in voting so this
early voting is very very interesting in
as they said today's vote is today -
it's the boat to watch yeah explain that
he getting Alana for people who aren't
aren't sure about that why today matters
probably a little more than the early
vote over the last two or three years
well what we saw happened in South
Carolina on Saturday that Joe Biden said
he would win big there and he won big
and that showed some of his opponents
that maybe they didn't have a path for
that being Amy Klobuchar and people to
judge and they all coalesced here in
Dallas last night and show a force the
so-called establishment rallying behind
him and it seemed to make a difference
as far as you know what we've seen
happened on the East Coast already if
tonight is indeed a closed night for
Bernie and for Biden that just sets up a
pretty big showdown I'm thinking and
next Tuesday when the next you know
round of states is is what Michigan to
Florida the two big gets then so this is
this this could be a knife fight between
a mom but well what really has to happen
is that Biden has to have
success to raise money barney outraised
Biden three-to-one in the month of
February 45 million to 15 million Biden
has to have enough success to get back
in the fundraising game let's go to
Harris County now Ilana talked about at
the moment ago or just showed me the
Twitter feed this is Houston Harris
County the early vote down there and
look at that it's time 26 and 26 percent
and again black alert not far behind
Bloomberg's close it looks like that
financial investment paid off taking
more the moderate stance what you may be
seeing here is some sort of combination
of the fact that Biden can't necessarily
win it outright but that the two
together Bloomberg and Biden stand for
the moderate middle of the Democratic
Party and so they may actually be
dividing the early vote in some ways
which is once again in case we haven't
said it enough tonight matters yeah it's
a question I asked the vice president
last night is Mike Bloomberg spoiling
Biden's candidacy in Texas well if you
look at the early vote is but we also
have to remember you have to count it in
terms of per dollar and that you're
picking up your votes and there's no
doubt per dollar spent over dollar yes
we are and so it's clearly been good for
Biden in that this has been very cost
effective Bloomberg has had to pay for
that quite a bit you know who we're not
talking about areas is a little bit I
wasn't warned who he's knocked out she's
running third in her home state she's
not obviously on the chart in these
urban counties in Texas she'll do better
in Terry in Travis County but I think
it's going to be a bad night for
Elizabeth Warren a lot of support in
Travis County I see it following a bush
my friends and Twitter and they all are
talking about how they voted for her
today I think it's telling also a lot of
the Elizabeth Warren is not in a Super
Tuesday State tonight having a party
having you know any type of yes she's in
Detroit Michigan yeah Michigan votes
next week right next week that's
suggestive of kind of what she thinks
absolutely she sees a path forward and
she's not gonna be
you know held down by by tonight's
finishings and and she says she's going
to stay in until the convention I get it
they all say that yeah but what's
realistic does she have if she doesn't
perform well tonight does Elizabeth
Warren have another couple of weeks and
this is worse than expected I mean if
she had hoped to be the one who was
there when Bernie faltered Bernie
doesn't appear to be faltering and so
you see and the question is whether she
goes off Bernadine and obviously she
doesn't think that she's going to do
well in Super Tuesday and that's very
telling she's out of the states so but
she does have a lot of money now she has
money so that could carry her on a lot
longer but I do not see going to the
convention I just don't see you or-or-or
a path forward I mean it can be is there
a path forward really for her as long as
Bernie is as strong as a progressive
which she is as well so one of the
things that you do is it depends on what
happens on Super Tuesday because the
fact of the matter is going back in time
you can look back at Gore and Kerry when
they ran for Democratic nomination and
they did so well on Super Tuesday that
all the rest of the candidates just
pulled out so it will depend she may be
jockeying for a position on the VP part
of it that but that and we will have to
see how that plays itself out a lot of
you mentioned Travis County with
Elizabeth Warren is she doing does she
do well or pull well anywhere else in
the state you guys have done a lot of
polls at The Texas Tribune yeah I mean I
just know I mean that was kind of
anecdotal I'd have to look back at our
our polling but yeah I mean she she just
resonates she's held several events
there and she seems to resonate with the
people in Austin and Greater Travis
County and I think Warren was the first
Democratic presidential candidate
besides Castro and O'Rourke of course to
have an office and set up shop in the
state several staff she has several
staff she got here early and she was
hoping to do something but his blood
points out she's not actually on the on
the resume photos here we have collin
county as well which is just north of
dallas of course plano frisco mckinney
this is the presidential race there
Bernie Sanders look at this Bernie
Sanders I would have thought that Joe
Biden would do well among moderates up
there but what do you make of this
Bernie Sanders with 30% of the early
like collin county looking at a younger
population area that the Republican
voters are 2/3 senior citizens Democrats
are half senior citizens but you're
looking at a younger voter base there
that's more of a Bernie voter all the
younger people the under 30 voter is
strongly for Sanders and keep in mind
that that county has just really
organized among Democrats the Democrats
was almost invisible on last election so
that could that it I'm like what but
says that's a younger voter again we see
another County with Mike Bloomberg at
18%
yeah that's what I was looking at he's
so yeah I mean I think he's over
performing here compared to polls but
you think about it like I do several
morning lives on Thursdays and I listen
to the programming in between and I
heard his commercials running right but
I mean obviously because his campaigns
running them they're all you know rose
color and ads and he was only challenged
twice on the debate stage and so a lot
of people voted before they actually
heard from him directly I thought he
would get one delegate somewhere in the
state it looks like he may get 1 million
in every district didn't pick up you
know maybe 20 delegates there so while
Biden is doing well in Virginia he's
doing well in North Carolina he probably
doesn't want to see Bloomberg doing too
well Alana I would presume he and his
campaign now in Texas right well I mean
you know we're the more moderate measure
I think this tonight especially versus
at California so no I mean he's
definitely cutting in and if he walks
away with a chunk of Delegates he might
feel emboldened to stay in we know he
has the money yeah he has some money
stay as long as he wants he's even said
that what he's going to keep his staff
on even if he's not the nominee to
support that to support the nominee and
he has quite a network built here yes he
does indeed here's the Dallas County
votes for US president this is the early
vote again these are some updated
numbers I believe Joe Biden at 27%
Bernie Sanders at 25% see no but I would
think
the younger voters would be here with in
Dallas County among Dallas County
Democrats but Biden is leading in this
early vote well what we're watching of
course one of the things we're watching
tonight is how we know Biden has a
strong vote among the African American
base vote of the party receive picks up
the Latino vote this may be Biden you
know beating Sanders our other to
splitting a Latino vote or look at it
who's yo who's strongest and in Cornelis
County you've got an urban Democrat vote
as we continue this conversation here I
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you the answers as soon as we can but
there's one thing that we're seeing over
and over again from all over the
Metroplex and that is why are there more
voting machines set aside for Republican
voters than for Democrats the situation
is some voters are surprised when they
arrive that they're split up in two
separate lines and that of course is
because there are separate ballots for
you know separate parties then they are
surprised again when they learned that
there are more machines set aside for
the Republican voters than for the
Democratic voters and you know hopefully
some of our experts here can shed some
light on that yeah explain that bud
because we talked about it a moment ago
you may not realize that the parties
physically run the primaries you know
the parties run election day in the
primaries that you know I think
everybody had one line same ballot for
early voting you just clicked on which
party you were vote but then you
actually have to sort yourselves out for
Election Day the parties control at the
parties make decisions I can't speak for
all the counties I know that in Tarrant
County they a lot of machines based on
past vote Tarrant County has been a very
regular red County and so going into
today there were 1,800 republican
machines and 1,000 democrat machines
almost two to one republican machines
for democrat
some polling places there were 20
Republican machines and only two
Democratic machines you have a
Democratic presidential primary drawing
a heavy Democratic turnout you had early
voting in there in Tarrant County where
the Democrats led early voting and yet
there are all these Republican machines
so Democrats are frustrated because of
the lack of machines and decisions that
were made based on past primary
performance and the decisions were made
by the parties themselves decisions are
made by the well the decision for how
many machines - a lot was made by
Tarrant County because they only have so
many machines right based on the path it
was approved by the two parties the two
parties say ok we'll agree on this we'll
agree on this well and I want to just
pause just for a second Nicole if you
can bring up if you guys can in control
room we want to update folks on district
12 the statewide numbers for
congressional district 12 which is kay
Granger and Chris Putnam we can and also
if you can give us some numbers for 32
as well the Republican race for
congressional district 32
Bernadine I interrupted you a moment ago
no no I'm more interested in district 12
but I did want to just add that this is
the first election where we're using
those voters Senate centers for ad
voters can vote anywhere and that's in
Tarrant County as well you don't have to
go to a specific precinct you can go to
any any area regardless of what your
driver's license says right that's part
of the problem if they have it's a box
that's historically Republican but now
Democrats are voting there because
that's where they work they're gonna
stand in line that's throwing everything
off yeah and and Nicole one more race I
meant to mention we thought a lot about
now which is of course the biggest
statewide race that you guys have
covered the heck out of it the Texas
Tribune and that's the Democratic race
for US Senate
yes MJ Hegar was going in the front
runner yes you're parsing through some
results have you have you seen how she's
performing I haven't seen the numbers
yet I'm trying to keep tabs on Twitter
because I'm not seeing as she's looking
at this just to remind our viewers 12
candidates running for this and the
Democrats looked at what happened with
Beto O'Rourke two years ago and what
would happen with Ted Cruz and thought
wow we have a shot at John Cornyn
everyone gets in the race and so that's
what's being parsed out so now with 12
people in no doubt there's going to be
to be a runoff
question is which to make the runoff
yeah we are expecting MJ Hegar she went
into this as a front-runner she's out
fund raised her opponents she has
somewhat of name ID they all are
struggling on that front but yeah really
the question is if the projections you
know bring true that she'll go in the
runoff and then who's the number two
could be Senator Royce West from your
area appear or Christina's in soon
Ramirez who's garnered some big-name
endorsements and this this is where
statewide this is statewide Alice for
statewide because these no no II can't
yeah yeah we'll fix that it says yeah we
have Amanda as the figure but also to
yeah so we'll get that one fixed but
that kind of throw us all off your hold
with us on that Roy's folks certain
folks are talking about yeah who's going
to be in a runoff for this one as we
mentioned the very top of this stream
about 25 or 30 minutes ago we're going
on to pause every so often so we can
update our broadcast audience we're
going to do that right now but the
cameras aren't turning off the
microphones are turning off so you can
still watch kind of behind the scenes
what happens here so stick with us Chris
and is you're going to update the
channel 8 viewing audience in just a
moment
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that's that's dollars guys that's Dallas
it's still crushing though I know what
Mike
because it's gonna change when we go
statewide we all knew he'd win Dallas
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thank you for turning WFAA special
coverage of Super Tuesday it is a big
night for the state of Texas yeah here's
a live look in Collin County now where
people have been standing in line
waiting to vote they have finally gotten
inside that building remember Collin
County one of the fastest growing
counties in the country and it was felt
in this primary we're hearing reports at
some locations where people had to wait
in line for more than two hours earlier
today
good evening I'm Cynthia gave it and I'm
Chris Lawrence look it is - very early
in the night but we are starting to get
some initial results from the Democratic
presidential race right here in Texas
yeah let's take a look turnout was a
huge factor here 228 delegates up for
grabs and of course we're the second
most of all Super Tuesday states behind
California and here you see Bernie
Sanders leading the pack right now on
top with 27% of the vote he was the
favorite headed into this Super Tuesday
he was hoping for a big turnout among
young and Latino voters it was a core
part of his coalition here and we'll see
what continues to happen these are early
numbers Chris yeah very early but let's
get to Jason wheeler he's got to kind of
dive into some of these numbers a little
bit and try to make sense of them for us
yeah we can break it down right now the
most populous county of all there Harris
County pulling for Joe Biden at this
point now he is just edging out Bernie
Sanders there but all of this is with
very little of the vote counted so far
statewide you see Bernie Sanders here
leading everyone Elizabeth Warren
senator Elizabeth Warren in second place
Joe Biden popping in at third place
there the curiosity that we have tonight
is how much of this will change once we
start counting that vote that happened
today on Election Day because of course
that early vote has a lot of candidates
in there who are not even in the running
anymore and you can see that they are
racking up votes here Pete Budaj 29,000
votes his campaign has been suspended
Amy Klobuchar our 15,000 votes hers has
been suspended as well
as far as the big population centers go
we're seeing in Collin County and
County that Bernie Sanders is leading in
both of those places right now the only
one where Elizabeth Warren is in the
lead is in Travis County there in the
capital with Austin that is it from the
big map over here Chris and is he
alright Jason and in the Democratic
primary for US Senate this race could be
headed to a runoff yeah the only
question is which two candidates will
compete right now Royce West is in the
lead in Dallas County let's check in
with them on Fernandez hey there Chris
I'm standing by for Voice West's watch
night party and I saw him a few moments
ago he told me that he is feeling very
good and very optimistic about his
chances in this Democratic primary you
know he spent the day traveling across
North Texas hidden polling sites
especially across Dallas and Fort Worth
he told me that he is feeling victorious
tonight especially about his chances at
making a run off you know there's a very
crowded election but again he and his
supporters say don't sleep on them
tonight they feel very optimistic and
will be waiting and watching to see
exactly what happens tonight he's in a
room not too far from where I'm standing
they're getting ready to watch those
election night results come in he says
that they made a statement especially
after those el paso polls close all
right Daman fernandez live in dallas
where there is a long list of Democrats
vying to unseat Republican incumbent
John Cornyn let's head down to Austin
now Theresa Woodard is standing by with
the MJ Hegar cam Theresa
Cynthia you heard what demand was saying
about Royce West spending the day out at
polling places in Jay Hagar had a very
different day she actually spent it with
her family spent most of her day with
her two young boys she did make a couple
of calls I'm told but she's really been
spending the day gearing up for tonight
based on recent polls she is far ahead
in this race but of course the question
will be who will she face in a runoff
that seems to be the likely scenario
Hagar has not made it to the to the
watch party here yet but we're expecting
to see her in the next few hours as
results start to come in back to you
Theresa that is the latest from our WFAA
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break we have now on on the left here my
left Jason Villalba former state Rep
alana rocha is still with us
Kimmy King from UNT has moved over here
to this side of the table and of course
Domingo Garcia the national president of
LULAC is with us too so let's start with
a Senate race and some numbers that we
have just gotten updated there from the
last few minutes this is going to change
a lot this is Dallas County from what we
understand Roy west of course he's been
representing you know Dallas in the
state legislature for years no surprise
he's ahead you know what surprises me
Domingo we'll start with you is that he
hasn't been on TV MJ hagar has been on
TV I figured she would do a little
better here but I understand there's a
field of 12 that are on the ballot well
this is a this is Royce's state district
state representative district he's well
known he's basically the key maker of
Democratic Party X in North Texas and
the street fees showing shows he has a
strong ground game even though he wasn't
on the airwaves Kimi there are 12 people
in here Amanda Edwards the former
counsel one from Houston the at-large
council woman down there she's at 9%
Chris Bell hasn't really shown up on
this he hasn't spent a lot of time up
here and who else mo there was another
one
Christina tintin Ramirez yeah Alana and
I have talked about a million times and
Christina has been up here a handful of
times but it hasn't spent a lot of time
up here did those numbers surprise you
perhaps but you also have to remember
that things are really volatile
especially because you're in an urban
area that is dominated by someone who is
considered to be a kingmaker that always
makes a huge difference but I think one
of the things that's striking and that
you're seeing here is that it's not
necessarily money buys the votes
it really can depend on what kind of
name recognition people have so we'll
see and MJ Hagar was endorsed by the you
know the feds and the feds but but the
what yeah endorsed early on in the
primary which is kind of unprecedented
in race like this right and she says
it's the only endorsement you know
measured by viability or on viability
but I don't know how much that resonates
with voters you know I mean looking at
that it's another endorsement from you
know the establishment right right it is
but we've talked about - Alana in the
past couple of days how it doesn't seem
like any of these candidates have really
broken out of their metro areas Royce is
popular in Dallas
Christina's popular down in Austin
Houston has Chris Bell and Amanda
Edwards yeah as well no one's really
kind of caught fire anywhere else in the
state I think that's what this primary
process is about you know the top two
who catch fire some would emerge and
then they Duke it out for a May 26th
runoff and that's what we're waiting for
Jason I want to talk to you about the
next results are popping up here this is
district 24 the results I believe this
is the Republican results indeed so Beth
Van Dyne the former mayor of Irving she
worked for the Trump administration as
well Wow 74% overwhelming support you
know Beth Van Dyne is well known
commodity all over Dallas she was the
mayor of Irving was considered very
well-regarded among the people of Irving
she was endorsed by Trump in the final
quarter of the race and so it was clear
that she had the support of the
Conservatives in that race we're
watching it and seeing what she's being
able to do so far it's pretty impressive
that number and of course she was kind
of the favorite in the race but there
were still five or six people and you
know a lot of folks didn't know if that
was going to go into a runoff well again
I think her name recognition helped her
in the beginning she also was fully
funded you know in a race like that
where you're splitting all those
different votes having resources really
does make a difference I know the her
cards were out she had a TV commercial
her immediate social media presence was
very strong and I think because of those
elements combined with her past history
and Irving she just showed up really
strongly today and there will not be a
runoff in that
we already have Mike Bloomberg speaking
he's in West Palm Beach a bleed he's
going to end up to the night in
California's gonna be a tight night but
let's listen in here for a moment now we
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unaffordable and undoable that won't
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I know we can do it and you know who
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an upbeat Michael Bloomberg speaking in
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Domingo let's start with you on this we
saw the results nationally and we saw
here in the state and Mike Bloomberg is
what in 18 20 22 % he's over performing
if you consider you know the polls what
do you think well when you spend half a
billion dollars you know and you
saturate point taken point taken
it's hard you know it's you're gonna get
your message across but the fact that
even have a stronger ground game and
that he's behind candidates is spent
significantly less in terms of a little
bit more Ebury Bernie Sanders and biting
well I think only spent like a million
bucks here at the end shows that money
cannot always buy you the election and
it came by you love either
Kimmy they'll be I've got to think that
the the Bloomberg campaigns feeling
pretty good just based on what we heard
there in West Palm I can't imagine he's
going anywhere anytime soon
yeah and certainly one of the concerns
is that how much it actually costs him
to get there I mean if you sort of look
back at what President Trump spent on
Super Tuesday for example it was 76
cents a vote whereas Bernie and Hillary
were spending somewhere a little north
of $2 a vote once this breakdown is
going to be done on what he spent in
Texas it's gonna be a pretty pricey race
it'll be a huge number right Alana yeah
absolutely I mean but looking at this I
mean I was just surprised I kept
comparing Biden and Sanders not
realizing that Bloomberg was secondly
36% well 37% for Biden according to
Secretary of State's office - about 22%
for Bloomberg and then Sanders is down
around 18% so I mean it just says a lot
on just how much he blanketed the
airwaves and our mailboxes with several
mailers several yeah I got quite a few
Jason we're talking outside your Lane
here though this is a race you're
watching I'm watching I'm watching it
and I think this might be an indicator
for what we might see later on in
California
right if if Texas had a significant
Latino population and if Texas has shown
the ability to go towards somebody other
than Sanders who has historically done
very well with Latinos in Texas does
that mean that
around the rest of the country
particularly in the West in Nevada where
you have Nevada but in Colorado and in
California where you have significantly
high Latino populations will they also
abandon Sanders and go for Biden like
we're seeing tonight in Texas I mean
that is a market difference from what
the polls told us we thought it was
neck-and-neck going into the night in
fact some polls said that that Sanders
was up and here we are looking at really
a runaway for Biden in these early
numbers yeah of course these numbers
will change but yeah it's it is
surprising consider what the polls
suggest let me put something else right
in the early voting which is what we're
looking at remember Amy Klobuchar and
Bhutto jag was also in the race so those
numbers for Biden should have been
suppressed and yet we're seeing that the
early voting numbers showed that they
were not suppressed in fact they were
quite in plate he was strong even before
election night I'm curious though what
folks are saying online about this we're
asking you guys to comment on their
facebook stream Texas will give you the
number again in a moment for our texting
device and the device we have and on
Facebook too let's start at the very end
lourdes tell us what you're monitoring
and tell us what people are saying so
I'm monitoring Twitter and what I'm
primarily seeing is a lot of different
organizations people telling them not to
telling the voters to not leave the
polls even if they've been waiting in
line for two hours if they were there by
7 o'clock they still have the
opportunity to vote and so that's the
big thing that I've seen on social media
for Twitter good and to remind folks too
they can always reach us on Twitter
using the at WFA or the hashtag vote
texas and lourdes will be watching those
as they come in Eric let's check in with
you as well
so I'm monitoring our text line WFA text
line we want to invite all of our
viewers you can text us at two one four
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we're going to be monitoring that line
live it's not automated we will respond
to your questions as best we can at this
hour most of what we're seeing is just a
photographs of the long lines and and
people starting to get excited to see
these results RJ yeah well we had mostly
commentary more so than questions so far
on Facebook a lot of Bernie Sanders a
lot of Joe Biden but also people asking
questions about Mike Bloomberg
approach to the race not just the money
but the time and is his late entry more
so helping him or hurting him that's a
one of the questions that was posed
earlier tonight you use work commentary
that's a very colorful way to describe
what I'm sure you're seeing over there
Julie you tell us what you're watching
as well - pretty much passing through it
what everybody else is doing up here but
I'm mainly on our text line like Eric
told you guys numbers 204 and 970 76028
asked let's get any questions we'll look
it up for you we'll find out for you
we'll toss it over to our experts there
but yeah a lot of people chiming in
about the line some people getting out
of the lines well past 7 o'clock but
glad that they voted today and waiting
to tune in to see how it's going to turn
out all right good deal thanks guys
we'll be checking in with you guys
periodically here too we just got an
update about the the third big race
we're watching which is the Republican
race for district 12 this is Kay Granger
the incumbent congresswoman who is the
only woman Republican in Congress and
Chris Putnam as well and so the results
there are delayed because of software
issues out there which is surprising
surprising to hear you're laughing Kimmy
yeah well it's been kind of the story of
the election process this year that
technical glitches are one of the things
that it really frustrated a lot of
people and yet at the same point
especially in that that 12 race that is
the race to watch that really is the
race it will be one that gets national
attention
if Putnam pulls us off it will be a
stunning upset and the Texas Tribune has
covered the heck out of this race as
well Alana to talk about what's at stake
here because kay Granger the incumbent
longtime incumbent even has president
Trump's endorsement yet Chris Putnam who
is a former councilman from Colleyville
is running a heck of a campaign against
her yeah and he questions her loyalty to
Trump of course she is has a lot of
clout there in DC sits on the powerful
Appropriations Committee and I think
it's just a weighing of ideological
purity versus congressional clout and I
think that's what a lot of people are
looking at there that's what we've
looked at and covering it's a similar
situation down on the radio with a Henry
Cuellar who's in a contested primary as
well and Jason want you to chime in on
that you know something about this topic
we remember
in Tarrant County you're going to have a
different tenor from the voter right
they're going to be more conservative
more focused on the principle principles
that you might find from a trumpian
style voter so even though Trump might
have blessed Granger in this race it
that's it's it's clear that the people
believe at least the conservatives that
are driving this electorate believe that
he is the the true conservative in the
race if you will and I think that's
what's driving some of these numbers
yeah we have there we've seen a lot of
grassroots support behind him of course
kay Granger has a lot of established
support she's had for years and years
let's check in with Jason wheeler on the
touchscreen Jason you tell us what
you're seeing statewide yeah so we're
looking at the statewide race right now
for the Democratic nomination for
president you see here Bernie Sanders
still with a pretty decent lead here of
about 7 points over Joe Biden who is now
crept into second place Elizabeth Warren
coming in third Michael Bloomberg
charting at fourth and then you see some
people who have dropped out and then you
see Tulsi Gabbard who is actually still
on the ballot she hasn't actually picked
up any she hasn't taken the lead in any
of these counties that were looking at
just yet but the other four sort of
battling it out in the big population
centers Joe Biden in Dallas County eking
out a little bit of a lead here this is
with very little of the vote counted
though Harris County same thing that is
neck-and-neck with Bernie Sanders there
but Joe Biden in the lead at least for
now anyway looking at some of our other
big counties here in North Texas Bernie
Sanders doing well in Collin County in
the very early going I want to point out
that a lot of these this is just early
vote that we're looking at here and it's
only a portion of that early vote same
thing in Denton County though where he
has taken a decently substantial lead
straight out of the gates here the one
standout here the biggest County that
went for Bernie Sanders when he took on
Hillary Clinton for the nomination in
2016 was Travis County tonight it is
trending for Elizabeth Warren in a big
way straight out of the gates with 44%
to 28 percent lead over Bernie Sanders
there that's a pretty substantial
development we don't have anything
coming in from Baer County just yet
where San Antonio is located and I'm
watching the valley down here a lot you
can see some purple starting to fill in
here Bernie Sanders doing very well and
County also doing well in gym hog County
and they're at the very tip of the state
in Cameron County Michael Bloomberg has
taken the lead in one County that we've
been able to see so far that is Hidalgo
County one of the reasons that I'm
watching the valley so closely as well
as just the border area here is this
right here look at some of these numbers
all of these represent different
counties there
this was their voter turnout the
percentage of voter turnout in the early
voting statewide we saw like five
percent or so in most of the counties
around Texas we're talking about like
Zapata County there 41% of people voting
in early voting Kennedy County 32% up
here in Culberson County 28% it's going
to be interesting to see which way this
goes we have a lot of Hispanic voters
down in this section and down here along
the border it'll be interesting to see
who spoke to those voters in recent
polling we have been seeing this is from
the dmn and the University of Texas at
Tyler Sanders really pulling ahead with
the Hispanic vote in recent polls
Bloomberg coming in right behind him
biking coming in behind both of them
there's another poll that shows sort of
the same thing Sanders taking a
commanding lead among Texas Hispanic
Democratic voters according to the
University of Houston and Univision so
we're trying to see if that in fact does
play out as we head down you can see
Bloomberg's starting to make his
presence known in some of these counties
here in central and in and West Texas
here Uvalde County Hutchison County and
Mitchell County but again the story
right now anyway Bernie Sanders up by
about well six percent now so joe biden
tightening that just a little bit it'll
be interesting to see when we finally
start getting some of that vote that is
from today again this is all just the
early vote right now and we're not even
seeing all of the early vote this is
just a portion of the early vote and
this is before joe biden picked up some
substantial momentum in south carolina
and before he picked up all of those
endorsements yesterday here in dallas
one other thing I want to show you here
let's take a look at the National map
this is where we stand right now and
this has been called here this is
Vermont it's obviously been called for
nice Anders that is his home-state not a
surprise there Virginia North Carolina
and Alabama have now been called in
favor of Joe Biden that's 52 delegates
there 110 there and 99 in Virginia
Bernie Sanders would stand to pick up 16
there in Vermont you can see the total
starting to come in in Maine where I
believe if I hover over this it'll give
me a little bit of an idea in Maine Joe
Biden with a tiny lead with 4 percent of
the precincts reporting there Tennessee
you can see Bernie Sanders straight out
of the gates in in the very early going
with a bit of a lead and then an
Oklahoma Joe Biden leading by eight
points well that's with 20 percent of
the precincts reporting so Joe Biden
doing very well there in Oklahoma and
that may be a surprise for Elizabeth
Warren of course and then in Arkansas
Joe Biden also leading by eight points
we're going to keep on watching this
Jason get it back over to you for now
yeah Jason we we just understood the kay
Granger is speaking right now let's go
straight to that and hear the
congresswoman who is in a tight race for
reelection for Tarrant County I'm at 85
70 my opponents is 56 27
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Parker County is a part of my district
very important part of my district and
part that I have felt very close to and
so I've been concerned about what's
being happening there right now I'm at
77-64 my opponents in 57 82 so this will
go on but I just want to tell you all of
you thank you so much for your support
you know when this happened it took me
by surprise because it was someone that
I didn't know and and I try to stay very
close to my districts I think you know
that you know I my job is in DC but the
first plane out literally we have a vote
the first plane out my my car is headed
to the airport and I'm home to Fort
Worth Texas and my district at the the
very first slide out and I will always
be there you know I you should never
doubt that I don't know who elected me
and who I owe my first responsibility my
first responsibilities the people who
elected me and though I always put it
and I know I've got staff here and they
feel the same way but when you make a
vote and you say I'm gonna vote for Cade
I've asked for the job and so we owe to
you every day the very best the very
best we can do and all of my staff knows
that we're there and say these are the
people and I always say it this way they
gave me a job and they put their
confidence in me and so they owe my best
for me but the other thing that's in
most important is is it's really keeping
up with what's going on and I do go back
and forth you know each each week but
the things that are important to you
like health care I pay attention to it
all the time
the first chief of staff that I had his
name was Ken Mehlman and he wasn't a
Texan
he was very northeast part of the
country but he said I've heard about
Fort Worth I said well let me tell you
buddy you get to get rid of those shoes
you have to you know be able at least
have a pair of boots and you have to
wear Brooks Brothers something else and
and I said but they'll give me a chance
but you have to understand and and he
did in fact it's so much that I said
okay you're talking so slow now that I
can't even keep up with what you're
saying but that's been that's that's
what you deserve and that's what I've
done the entire time I'm in Congress I
have I have now a responsibility that
it's really it's a big responsibility
was in my second term the biggest
community the biggest position you can
have cipro prefigure out how to fund the
government and so what first was my
opponent this time would say what she
she votes to spend this money well yeah
right the bills you know so all right
kay Granger essentially claiming victory
early Jason Villalba let's start with
you she had to win that but we haven't
seen a lot of K in a long time
this is again I think a testament to
some of her strength among conservatives
I thought that it was going to be the
other way around in Tarrant County but
it sounds like Tarrant County she turned
it around and that Trump endorsement I
do think probably was the
difference-maker in that race and in the
rural counties he obviously did better
but she really put it together in
Tarrant County where it mattered most
kymmie briefly I want you to hit on hit
on this report yeah so one of the things
interesting about Tarrant County and at
least Granger's district is that only 40
percent is into
so you really have to expand beyond that
I think one of the things about the
national election that we keep an eye on
for president is in Texas many of the
rural counties are the ones that have
chimed in Wow yeah it's a fascinating
race we're going to pause here just for
another moment to update our broadcast
audience we're back at a mama Domingo
Garcia from LULAC Kimmy King from UNT
Alana Rocha from the Texas Tribune Jason
Villalba our social media team and Jason
wheeler on touchscreen as well two
cameras aren't turning off the bikes
aren't turning off so stick with us for
a few minutes as we update our broadcast
audience thank you
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I'm Cynthia theatre and I'm Chris
Lawrence okay it is still early but
we're starting to get our first look at
who Texans voted for in the presidential
primary let's take a look at those
numbers right now again you could see
with just about 20% of the people
reporting Bernie Sanders is opening up
an early lead Sanders in at about 27%
Joe Biden at 21% Elizabeth Warren
they're 19 I think now the latest
numbers show Michael Bloomberg may have
surpassed her but again Bernie Sanders
leaving Texas at this point and you know
Jason wheelers been breaking down the
numbers for us Jason what do we see from
North Texas counties yeah you called it
there Chris by the way Michael Bloomberg
has moved into third place behind Bernie
Sanders and Joe Biden what we're seeing
in Dallas County right now here it's
neck-and-neck but Joe Biden is hanging
on to about a two percent lead in Dallas
County let's go down to a Harris County
this is a big humongous a chunk of
voters there and you can see it is
neck-and-neck right now between Joe
Biden and Bernie Sanders let's bring it
back up here to North Texas if we look
at Denton County you see Bernie Sanders
just jumping ahead same thing in Collin
and Tarrant counties Cynthia crisp all
right Jason wheeler and that is just a
glimpse of the coverage we're providing
for you right now yeah again it's a it's
interesting you look at all those votes
that were cast for Amy Klobuchar for Tom
stop starting to a lesser extent of heat
Lutie judge as well and you wonder where
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all right so now one of the biggest
races we were watching tonight they were
having problems with the the returns in
Tarrant County this is district 12 kay
Granger and Chris Putnam and I want to
ask Nicole is this which county is this
we're looking at here it's Tarrant
this is Tarrant County Olli kay Granger
running away with this which was
surprising considering how negative how
nasty this campaign got but does it
surprise you at all about this you
thought Kane would eek it out the entire
time but this is a heck of a lot more
than eating I thought it would be closer
we have the Parker results and they're
similar which I everybody said would be
closer in Parker County the but I think
she's looks like she's winning this
about 30 40 kay Granger will be the
nominee for return to Congress she'll
face Lisa Welch in the in the fall
election in district 12 a Granger had to
do well in Parker County there's as many
votes out there almost as in Tarrant
County she she says we haven't seen
these numbers yet she says she won
Parker 7702 5700 Phil King State
Representative big help out there and
that light Donald Trump Riaan door sment
where he tweeted affirmative Lee once
again couple days ago yes I do support
kay Granger had to have help it was a
race where she was supported by Donald
Trump he tweeted he supported her and
yet the opponent said no no no she's not
for Donald Trump he was able to say
that's fake news don't believe the
president Domingo does this suggest
anything to you about what we might see
as far as well it's kind of interesting
that kid Granger was also seen sort of
the moderate wing of the Republican
Party the george w bush side and the
fact that she had to go and get Donald
Trump's endorsement to survive basically
a right wing attempt of primary her
shows that she's the whole Republican
Party is shifting to the right because
of the Trump emphasis and his success
Wow the this was thought to be a heck of
a lot closer than it actually turned out
let's talk about the long lines - we
heard a moment ago from Lourdes about
the long lines of the polls and a lot of
let's talk about that because you said
early on you were curious about what
today's turnout my be knows Houston
lines and ours fail horribly long yeah
one reporter I was looking at for The
Wall Street Journal down there was
saying that a poll worker had told
somebody that they could expect to cast
their ballot or be out of there in three
and
three and a half hours where was this
this was in Harris County and my son
wasn't in line in Dallas County at Garr
wheeler park here in northern Dallas
about and he sent me a picture and it
was about a hundred people at seven a
seven pm waiting to get in to boat Wow
let's go to joven panicker he's in
McKinney in Collin County and he saw the
same thing up there some long lines how
Jobin yeah there were long lines they've
closed the doors now and there are
people still driving up seeing if they
can vote so we should reinforce to
people that the polls have already
closed at 7 o'clock yeah there are still
people coming up the security obviously
tells them you're done we've we've we've
closed the we've closed the polls here
you know there's an interesting dynamic
here in Collin County we've got a
hundred thousand more registered new
voters compared to four years ago now
that's that's something you do not see
and that is the biggest jump for any
county in this state and when you think
about all these uh you know corporate
headquarters that are coming into town
that makes a lot of sense Plano McKinney
Frisco that's where all people are going
100,000 new registered voters that's a
significant number now Collin County
votes according to Bruce sherbert sure
but I had a chance to talk with he tells
me that the results will slowly populate
they'll populate between now to 8:30
then to 10 o'clock and might not be
finished until about midnight there were
no major issues that any of the any of
the 61 voting centers here here in
Collin County obviously the jump in that
in in the 100,000 new registered voters
is significant for this election but
here's another interesting statistic
Jason the number of Democrat voters went
up 230 percent compared to four years
ago and then you had 30 percent drop in
the number of Republican voters now
Bruce sherbet did clarify it and put it
some context he said it indicates
obviously there's a hotly contested
election here that being the Democratic
primary for the presidential election
Bruce tells me his hope is by the end of
tonight by midnight that we have a 30
percent voter turnout that would be good
nice tie selection there to Joe but it's
he's red and blue you're right down the
middle tonight man let's go to
let's go - hey I did the same thing
mine's a little you know tighter lines
but let's go to lords italic we've been
talking the last 15 minutes about kay
Granger seat this is district 12 and
she's running away with us despite
problems getting the results back Lauren
yeah Jason as you guys are I've been
listening to your coverage and you guys
were mentioning that soon after seven
o'clock you know we're all anticipating
as historically it's been shown that
you'll start to get some of those early
results but here in Tarrant County we
started noticing you know time was
passing and we still weren't getting
anything I talked to hydro Garcia the
elections administrator a couple times
got a little bit of information out of
him essentially he was saying that hey
this is the first time we've used this
particular system he didn't elaborate on
that I'm wondering if he's meeting the
particular machines that they were using
at the polls was sort of a new process
that people are getting used to and he
said it was just taking a bit longer so
when I first checked in about seven
twenty five to find out what was going
on he said we've we've exported it now
we're just waiting to upload it to the
website well as you guys are probably
knowing it didn't finally get on to the
website until about seven fifty tonight
we're actually here at the Tarrant
County Democrats watch party and you
could hear kind of an eruption of
emotion or cheers when they started to
be able to see the results so they do
have the results up now on a screen that
they're kind of scrolling through as the
night goes on as you know we've got just
a handful of a you know high profile
Democrats in the primaries so we've got
a bunch of different parties around the
county but this is the one where they
kind of just gathering to discuss what's
going on with you know both the
presidential and some of the local races
so in any case I'm sure we're going to
learn more about what exactly happened
with a delay in getting some of those
results in Tarrant County but it looked
like you know I think around probably
6:30 or so we started to see the day of
voters overtake the early voters so so
we do know that people were showing up
today and so we'll stay on top of it and
see what else pops up guys back to you
alright Lauren thank you one of the
high-profile races Lauren was talking
about of course is the district 12 race
with kay Granger we just heard from kay
Granger a few moments ago kay Granger is
not the one who's necessarily in front
of the cameras all the time I think most
folks on this panel know but she was
speaking to reporters on
go in Tarrant County Murray Saavedra is
there right now Murray hi Jason yeah as
learned was talking about the wait for
those results you know the groom here at
the ke Granger watch party was actually
pretty calm which we were looking at his
sort of assigned as to how she was
feeling about this race as you were
talking about earlier it was possible
that this could have been a close one
yet there seems to be a feeling of
confidence throughout this whole day for
the congresswoman's campaign you heard
her thanking her supporters as she was
starting to get numbers in we've gotten
numbers from Parker County seeing some
reports on Tarrant County s website as
well all giving her a very comfortable
lead against Chris Putnam he turned this
race into basically if you boil it all
down how conservative do you need to be
to represent district 12 who is more
conservative in this case president
Trump's endorsement of kay Granger came
in December via tweet that seemed to
certainly mean something but where Chris
Putnam really tried to work on
congresswoman Granger was the fact that
she in his mind had not supported
through financial decisions the water
wall or had made other decisions about
increasing races for lawmakers
themselves but thus far as we're seeing
in these numbers that did not seem to
rattle the name recognition the ties
that kay Granger has to this community
to district 12 which she could possibly
serve in a this 13th term with her win
if that comes true tonight as we
continue to watch these numbers roll in
but it was a very interesting day in
this community saw a lot of people at
the polls that we were at in Tarrant
County specifically we spent the day in
Fort Worth with a lot of enthusiasm we
met Chris Putnam at one he was meeting
voters we asked what kay Granger did
today she also was speaking of voters
but she also were told was spending time
working with people in Washington there
about a package involving response to
coronavirus so clearly work on Capitol
Hill still being done as this election
goes forward we'll see how the vibe in
the room is throughout the rest of the
night as more numbers come in Jason said
here report Murray thanks a lot for that
we have some updated results from El
Paso as well let's take a look at the
presidential results this is El Paso
County obviously one of the largest
counties most populated counties in the
state Bernie Sanders winning big out
there 36% of the vote this is the
early vote of course but Michael
Bloomberg 25% and Joe Biden 17% it's
what we talked about for the last hour
or so here it's you know Bloomberg it's
been on the airwaves all across the
state no surprise here I couldn't get
anyone to look up at me here it comes
like yeah that he has been on the air
you know I'm police I'm looking at it
and I know these are numbers we don't
have on the screen but I'm looking at a
smaller County Parker around here
Parker is actually a three-way race
between Sanders Biden and Bloomberg
they're all roughly to 23% Bloomberg's
television has been very effect we're
about an hour so into the results being
released here in the state of Texas
let's kind of reset on the panel Jason
Villalba is one of our experts he's a
former state legislator alana rocha is
with the texas tribune she's with us all
night talking about the results but
Kennedy from the Star Telegram spending
some time on Twitter there and Domingo
Garcia the national president of LULAC
is with us glad to have him here too so
we're an hour and Jason we'll start with
you biggest surprise of the night I get
surprised the night that looks like that
sanders is going to pull away in texas i
thought it'd be closer than this we saw
early on and me in the evening that it
was neck-and-neck in fact the early
numbers showed us that biden was
actually up but as the night goes on as
urban counties come in like el paso
we're seeing a real strength from from
from sanders and i think that speaks to
his how are his strengths among latinos
in texas i mean he is getting about 60%
of Latinos in texas and I think that's
driving these numbers all across the
state I mean the sleeping giant is
certainly awake and at least in this
race it looks like they're they're
focusing on on Sanders
I know Domingo want to talk about that
Alana the Texas Tribune has reporters
all over the place they get surprised
and thank you to the Trib also for
putting Alana on loan to us tell it tell
us the biggest surprise you think
tonight well I mean we're still watching
the numbers roll in and I'm still
waiting to see you know Travis County
for instance like I told you anecdotally
earlier I had several people on my
Twitter feed saying that they pledging
their allegiance to Elizabeth Warren who
you know wasn't one of the two that had
been talked out talked about a lot in
the last 24 or 48 hours
and so I'm waiting to see how about you
comes in and if that skews the numbers
but watching these numbers kind of shift
back and forth between Biden Bloomberg
and Sanders has been interesting and
yeah again Bloomberg's spending and
timing of his spending seems to be
effective given the amount of people
that vote early and him blanketing the
airwaves in our mailboxes that's
probably one of the headlines tomorrow
but what do you think last hour
what are you surprised about you know I
think the obviously the Bloomberg
emergence I think the you know just the
numbers of shift of the the state
results with Bernie you know writing a
few points ahead of Biden like we said
though the early results were going to
favor the whole field and the later
results would favor Jill Biden so let's
see how it goes from here Domingo just
like we saw at the African American vote
kind of be a firewall for Biden down in
South Carolina North Carolina and
Virginia
I think Bernie's firewall is the nathie
no vote we saw that in Nevada we're
seeing it in Texas where Bernie is
winning in El Paso and in South Texas
and if he pulls out text which I believe
he will it's gonna be because the Latino
vote and the african-american vote is
not gonna is that's officially large
like it is in the southern states to
help biting out although it's still
early to call them we'll see what
happens in Harrison Dallas County
biggest surprise Elizabeth Warren eleven
percent no delegates for Elizabeth
Warren so that's a great point one race
that has been called an easy race to
call of course as John Cornyn he is
speaking right now I believe he is in
Houston let's listen in what a night
this is I'm so happy to share this
moment with my wife Sandhya my wife of
40 years and our daughter Haley is here
with us tonight
Sandi's been there through all those
races starting as a district judge back
in 1984 and I still remember she asked
me after that first race said did you
know before you asked me to marry you
that you were going to run for political
office I was a little worried to say yes
but I want to thank all of all of my
supporters across Texas for nominating
me to be your United States Senate
candidate for the Republican Party 120
yeah we have put together an incredible
grassroots machine to help tell us the
victory not just tonight but in November
2020
yeah yes Matt said we are a united as
one party and we go into the general
election stronger than we have ever been
before
the stage is now set for a referendum of
our lifetimes the referendum of our
lifetimes
well Texans abandon the principles that
have made our state the envy of the
nation in order to live under the
stranglehold of socialism Orville Texas
Texas do what we've always done choose
freedom freedom asperity well yeah our
self-determination yes yes
now with those choices before us it
seems to be the dis election is not just
a race between political parties but
rather a race for who we are as a state
and who we are as a nation I'm something
honored to serve in that Senate seat
that was first held by the great Sam
Houston Sam Houston who might you
actually knew a thing or two about
revolutions they can teach Barney a
thing or two Sam used to knew what was
good for Texas was good for America and
I think that's still true today Texans
are entrepreneurs Texans are Cowboys
wildcatters and astronauts Texans are
also working parents students teachers
immigrants
and whatever happy where we often find
that quite easily winning the nomination
again for his seat he will face though a
Democrat obviously in November and there
are 12 of them running tonight let's go
to the latest numbers we have statewide
numbers to see who is ahead here
everyone's head on the panel is popping
up MJ Hagar 35% she was favored to win
polling the most now Christina since
soon Ramirez is up at 17% and Royce West
this is three percent of the statewide
vote and as domingo garcia pointed out a
moment ago to us now many of the urban
counties have really reported this yet
we saw el paso county report we're
waiting for a lot of the urban counties
to start reporting their numbers of
course this lineup could change though
many expect MJ Hagar to be on top don't
they Alana yes absolutely I mean she you
know made a name for herself really
nationwide in her failed bid for
Congress against John Carter and with
her big flashlight ad she had another
one I think where she was dropping the
kids off in a helicopter you know kind
of tapping her experience in the
military as a pilot but yes she's named
made a name for herself and again like
you said though they're kind of all
names in different sectors of the state
yeah itself right seeing who can cross
over if you will so the polls is closed
about 15 minutes ago in Colorado Weiden
Joe Biden is projected to win in
Oklahoma and of course President Trump
everyone knew this is going to happen in
Texas is the Republican nominee for
president here let's check in with just
there on the touchscreen touchscreen to
get a better idea what's happening
county by county we've been looking at
this Senate race among the Democrats to
take on John Cornyn you were just
talking about how MJ Hagar in the lead
here a hundred thousand votes so far -
Christina Ramirez 47,000 so quite a
distance between them they're an
interesting thing even here in parts of
North Texas Collin County MJ Hagar just
jumping out there in front of the pack
same thing in Denton County this is an
area where senator Royce West has
tremendous name recognition and yet
you're seeing a very strong showing from
MJ Hagar they
also down in the capital in in Travis
County MJ Hegar taking a commanding lead
there as well too big question marks on
that one of course the county of Dallas
County where we're expecting to see
quite a return there in favor of Royce
West and he has been counting very
strongly on the african-american vote
that would come from Harris County
neither one of those reporting any
numbers at this point so some of that
will start to fill in here in the next
little bit let's bring you up to date as
to what we're looking at presidential
wise here for the Democrats in in the
state Harris County we still got Joe
Biden in the lead that one's been close
all night long
we still have zero percent of the
precincts reporting there so that's just
early vote that we're talking about same
thing in Dallas County it is a razor
thin there but Joe Biden in the lead for
now anyway but you see that statewide
Bernie Sanders jumping out there he is
about six points ahead of Joe Biden
who's bringing it in second Michael
Bloomberg trailing behind in third place
at this point want to just kind of put
something on your radar here that we're
watching tonight as well no one talks
about Jefferson County it's right down
there in the corner of the state I'm
watching that closely tonight because
that is the only County in the entire
state of Texas that is what is known as
a pivot County it went for Obama in oh
wait Obama in 12 and then switched over
to trump in 16 we had 206 of those
counties across the country this is the
only one in Texas Democrats are watching
to see who can pull off those pivot
counties who can swing those voters back
who seems to energize those voters right
now they are very much in Joe Biden's
camp in Jefferson County tonight will
kind of break that down a little bit
more and look at that from a broader
perspective a little bit later on Jason
all right Jason thanks a lot you know as
we're taking a look at this we're
talking about some of the different
candidates and how they're doing tonight
and Domingo and bud point out this this
is a big night for for Mike Bloomberg
we're talking about how he over
performed from what the polls were
showing that he was running at ten or
eleven percent but at the end of the day
he is going to walk away with telegin
the fact of the matter
Bloomberg gets 50% he meets that
threshold and right now and the
threshold is to collect delegates
delegates and that's you know like my
state Senate District context right so
if he's a 20 percent right now statewide
in those rural counties he's possible he
can wind up with 30 40 delegates coming
out of Texas and then I don't know how
he's doing some of the other states plus
he won American Samoa
I got support nadia realized they were
part of super news and if we get a
brokered convention at Bernie or neither
burning or buying have a majority
Bloomberg can be the decision maker in
that situation where they look blue
Berg's television strategy they said why
are you spending so much money in
Amarillo and San Angelo in places where
there are no Democrats well there may be
no Democrats but if you get 15% you
still get delegates so you know he
doesn't have to have many votes in rural
Texas to pick up a big chunk of
Delegates and that's what's happening
and if he walks away with delegates just
update our viewers that that makes him
as you mentioned if this goes to a
brokered convention which hasn't
happened since 1952 that would make him
a key player and where to candidate and
what yeah a possible vice presidential
candidate I think you heard it here
first what do you guys think about that
I think we have to tap the brakes a
little bit on the bloomberg momentum I
mean what we're seeing here as a result
of the fact that a week ago button was
not doing as well and so people were
looking for the alternative Bloomberg
was the natural alternative for them all
the other moderate Democrats are now out
so they obviously went that direction or
split their vote between Joe and
Bloomberg and so I think in those
situations now going forward that
everyone's out except for Joe and
bloomer head-to-head I think we're gonna
see a different result than we might be
seeing tonight but you know Alana and
Jason pointed out as well to that the
Bloomberg has won that Biden has won six
states tonight he's still doing well oh
yeah know for sure and it all comes down
to the math right so I mean if he does
well enough and in you know the states
not only winning them you know winning
them of course helps him fundraise and
get on the airwaves in the future states
and and hopefully secure more wins and
that's an issue Bloomberg doesn't have
to worry about is the fundraising he
just writes a check or slides his visa
and takes care of those Airways and the
other story is Elizabeth Warren and
right now is running eleven percent of
Texas a few doesn't hit 50
I mean she gives no delegates out of
Texas and I don't see her staying you
know past Super Tuesday and in her home
state of Massachusetts as well she's not
performing well there is she's ranked
third there and this has got to be
disappointing ninth overall for everyone
who's supported Lizabeth Warren but you
know she was late opening offices here
she was like getting with her campaign
alright guys we're gonna come back here
in just a moment we're gonna pause again
as we've been doing throughout the night
to update our broadcast audience Chris
and Cynthia walking into the studio now
to do an update from folks who are
watching on TV and will be back here in
just a couple of minutes with some more
context perspective and digest kind of
what we're seeing and all these results
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thank you for joining WFAA special
coverage of Super Tuesday it is a big
night here for the state of Texas I'm
Chris Lawrence and I'm Cynthia I gave
them more numbers in tonight and we're
looking at how you voted right here in
Texas in the Democratic primary for
president Bernie Sanders is ahead here
in Texas we want to take a live picture
of him there you see with 29% of the
vote Joe Biden right behind him with 23%
and Michael Bloomberg in third place now
two that live picture in Vermont where
Bernie Sanders is expected to come out
and speak to his supporters at any
moment yeah this is a live look at his
watch party again he is Bernie Sanders
leading in Texas right now you know when
I when you look at the Senators campaign
a part of its core outreach was to
Latino voters in Texas based on the
numbers tonight Jason have they
delivered for him coming and suggest
that Chris and and you're right a lot of
people were wondering who is going to
speak to the Latino voters and Sanders
campaign has been trying to do that here
is a recent poll from Univision and U of
H Sanders with 42 percent preference
among Hispanic Democratic voters
compared to 18% for Biden one
interesting thing that I've been looking
at tonight is some of these real
strongholds for the Democratic Party
where you have large Hispanic
populations this is the percentages of
people who voted in early voting in
these different counties that is just
off the charts I mean 41 percent of
people in Sabitha County for example
voting in early voting this time around
we're trying to see what that translates
to when we get to the actual vote
numbers and you can see that Bernie
Sanders is doing well in some of these
places along the border particularly and
down here in the valley
Jim hog County doing well they're doing
very well at the tip of Texas they're in
Cameron County and these numbers just
came in a while ago from El Paso County
Bernie Sanders taking a commanding lead
there Joe Biden coming in third place
there right now but again that's with a
very tiny amount of the vote being
counted so far and that is not
reflective of what we saw last night
with their local man there Beto O'Rourke
endorsing Joe Biden so we'll see if that
starts to change as we get into the vote
from today Chris and Izzi
all right wheeler and
the Democratic primary for US Senate
long list of Democrats are trying to
unseat Republican incumbent John Cornyn
yeah Alex Rozier is live in Austin with
Senator Cornyn's campaign we just heard
him speak just a few minutes ago Alex
yeah and he has energized a strong night
in the primary John Cornyn seeking his
fourth term in the United States Senate
already raised a ton of money more than
12 million dollars in the bank for the
re-election campaign and we heard from
the senator just minutes ago
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the senator at the Travis County
Republican watch party tonight he is now
moving on to the general election he's
very hopeful saying that he wants
Republicans to win in November from the
White House to the courthouse we'll have
more from Austin coming up at 10 o'clock
guys I'll write our Alex Rozier live in
Austin and that is the latest from our
WFA studio we will continue our special
coverage of Super Tuesday online at WUF
a.com and our WFA social media pages
before we let you go though we want to
talk about a couple of other races that
we are following right now in several
congressional districts congressional
district the 32nd 24th and congressional
district number 12 poor kay Granger is
doing quite well tonight in Texas yeah I
mean we've talked a lot about the
Democrats tonight but the Republicans
had a very heated primary on their side
as well kay Granger been in Congress now
for 24 years never had a Republican
challenger until now when Chris Putnam
got into a very personal and bitter
fight with Granger he says he's best
positioned to sort of carry president
Trump's legacy here in North Texas kay
Granger says well I got the president
himself to endorse me we invite you to
continue following us on our WFAA
digital network and for those of you
watching on television we'll send it
back to ABC News we'll see you back here
in half an hour
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all right back now for our special
election night coverage of Super Tuesday
2020 we reset our expert panel once
again we would like to bring in a lot of
folks to talk about what we're seeing
tonight Vinny man chiloe is a principal
and glasshouse strategies has been on
our programs many times of course but
Kennedy is still in his chair Alana
Rocha is still in her chair buds the
support works our telegram Alana is with
the Texas Tribune and she's up here from
Austin with us and Deborah people's the
county chairwoman for the Democratic
Party in Tarrant County you made the
drive over here to the other side of the
Metroplex thank you for that let's start
just kind of reset for everyone we're
what 90 minutes in two polls closing in
Texas well start with our two guests
first since we've heard from you guys
what are you most surprised about
tonight Debra what am I most surprised
about or delighted about is the real
uptick in Democratic turnout I mean
we're in Texas we know that we have to
win Texas for a Democrat to win the
White House and we're seeing long lines
of Democrats all over in Tarrant County
I'm absolutely a static I have voters
who are not happy they were in long
lines but long lines means we've got
Democrats who are out there well let's
talk about the voters who weren't happy
they were in long lines because Julia
and Jay and Eric and Lourdes are hearing
about that on our social media team here
what what happened what's going on know
in you guys that have enough machines oh
of course we had enough machines but we
have never had joint primaries in
Tarrant County the Democrats have always
had their sites Republicans have had
their site but historically Republicans
have always try us in Tarrant County
it's been about 61 39 that's not the
case now and so when they allocated
machines they allocated it based on the
2016 election so I've got we won early
voting never happened before Democrats
actually beat Republicans in early
voting so we knew we were going to have
the potential for some long lines the
other thing is that we have countywide
voting and voters are just getting used
to it so they many went to their old
polling places there are long lines we
said you could go right down the street
and there's no line and they said I'm
staying
I stayed in line before I get it Vinnie
I want to ask one more thing so what
happens tomorrow morning what
who are you emailing who are you calling
where are you going where you marching
down to tomorrow morning oh let me take
tomorrow morning we just thought we
would start working on the November
election but we're moving and we have
some runoff so it looks like we're gonna
have some runoff that we have to get
ready for but we're focused on the
general election in November all right
Debra people she's gonna be with us for
the next hour or so
from the Tarrant County Democratic Party
Vinnie McGill Oh produces ads he is one
of our Republican go-to guys what do you
think about tonight man biggest surprise
for you
well the biggest surprise for me is you
know having a primary that matters a
presidential primary that matters in
Texas so it's fun to see all the ads we
never see them so so you know if you
like the way the best ads this year that
of course Bloomberg had the best stuff
yeah love him or hate him the ads were
were they were turning them in 24 hours
after the after he got shellacked in the
debate his ads the next day said we need
a doer not a debater so he was reacting
in real time with his ads it was a great
thing to watch
of course Biden started the night early
doing well on the East Coast but this
has been a big night for Bloomberg he is
going to know when delegates tonight
right and as we go towards the west
coast with California and play tonight
as well - it looks like Bernie will
likely have a big night there at least
he's polling like he will but this is
gonna be a three-person race
Biggers i I think is it going to be a
three-person I will tell you this from
the from the public when somebody buys
media in a political race they have to
put it in the public file so right now
there's nothing in the public file for
Mike Bloomberg after March 5th that's
interesting he's been buying a week at a
time right now he hasn't so what is that
what does that tell you here's what you
see what happened tonight by the end of
tonight he'll either bring out the
checkbook or he'll put it back I can't
imagine but he's gonna put it back you
know he raised a lot he did correct a
great job of his ads at the valley the
valley is where he's really picked up a
lot of motion he and Bernie are the two
people taking the valley
and he's just done so well he has to be
encouraged maybe he wasn't planning to
go ahead but now we'll see if this
pushes him to go ahead with his camp
right that's fascinating Ilana I didn't
realize that what do you see when you
have the map pulled up here yeah we're
still waiting for a lot of the major
Metropolitan's I saw here I thought San
Antonio was in but I don't seem Barrett
County yet but yet we're just kind of
waiting to see how it shakes out I saw a
clip today where a reporter was asking
Bloomberg how much longer he was gonna
stay in the race and he said look I'm
I'm in it to win it otherwise I would
have you know spent this money to start
with but we know he has a great Network
here across Texas and across many of the
states and he'll just transfer the
purpose of those networks to the
eventual nominee if he's not in it and
Bloomberg was Stern when he told the
reporter to essentially stop asking me
that question right down in Florida
let's go to some early results this is
Barrett County this is San Antonio this
shows Bernie Sanders doing great down
there again the early vote this was
filed the polls closed rather seven
o'clock so this is kind of been
trickling into the state Bernie Sanders
leading big down there against Joe Biden
and Michael Bloomberg just you know
razor thin margin right behind a bud
well I mean pushing Biden there in Barre
and then you get down further south of
Bali in Bloomberg's heavy spending on
spanish-language television you're
really boosted him in the well even
among African Americans you'd be
surprised
even with Bloomberg's record he his ads
were catchy when he ran the ad with
President Obama there was all this
people people saying that President
Obama had endorsed him so he picked up
african-american votes didn't that cause
confusion though I heard a lot of people
saying well did he really did Obama
really endorse which we know Obama did
not endorse but the ad looked that way
yeah the ad looked that way and for
enough people it was convincing enough
to feel like he did it and go ahead but
I was gonna say Jason you know last
election the Republicans who came
fascinated with this idea well Trump
he's a rich man he must be smart the
Democrats are just as susceptible to
that absolutely they're also I mean they
all were trying to kind of frame
adds that Obama had endorsed them
Elizabeth Warren was running one with
favourable language towards her right it
was a blast a bluebird got out there
first and he ran that ad hard and heavy
and by the time that Warren came out
with hers and even Obama came out with
one four by the die was already cast I
want to ask about Warren too because she
has not been performing that well
tonight in any Super Tuesday State in
her home state of Massachusetts as Bud
pointed out and she knew that going in
because she's not in a Super Tuesday
State tonight she's in Detroit Michigan
where she's having an event you were you
gonna say something
Vinnie about about Warren or about the
Bloomberg he's he's kind of plated a
little fast and loose with some of the
claims he's done so many ads he stepped
over the line a couple of times he sort
of claimed that he that's why we're here
he was never he was there after 9/11 and
rebuilt New York very clever with the
language but but a lot of people
misconstrued so nobody made a big deal
out of that when he wasn't doing as well
but they are now people are gonna be
fact you know we're back to rewinding
the exact Deborah what happened with
with Elizabeth Warren what couldn't she
get traction she was one of the first
candidates national presidential
candidates to open an office in this
state I think there was so many
candidates in the race and people had so
many choices and so people went you know
by the time their candidates started
dropping out by then Bernie had put a
big ground game together he's got an
amazing ground game in Tarrant County
and people started breaking toward their
candidates early and if you look at the
numbers only about 22% of the people say
they decided in the last few days people
had already settled on a candidate and
pretty much they stuck with it let's
before we continue the conversation
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down here at the end what are folks
talking about so I'm on Twitter and I
looking at our periscope we got a lot of
comments of people who are out voting
pictures but the main thing still
continues to be that if you're in line
and you still haven't voted and you got
in line before seven o'clock you still
can vote I have not seen our people
still in line lourdes i have not seen an
update on that recently but i think it's
just that continued that's that's
incredible yeah polls have been closed
for an hour and 40 minutes right now and
still folks are in line
Eric what do you say tell us what you're
monitoring what you're seeing - so I'm
monitoring the WUF a text line again
want to remind our viewers you can text
us at two one four nine seven seven six
zero two eight if you're having any
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confirm for you
there are voters at an adult an
elementary school in Grand Prairie who
are still in line I just spoke to a
gentleman his name is Walter Johnson he
said he hopes to get out of there by
9:00 however I spoke to another
individual who is not so confident so
they are standing in line mr. Johnson
said it's moving a little bit better now
and he is going to stay as long as it
takes he says there is just too much at
stake in this election so yes there are
still people in line that's some
dedication Jay yeah I'm checking it on
Facebook right now and not to sound like
a broken record but it's the long lines
that's what people are talking about
specifically South West Branch Library
in Arlington we had a couple people say
that they were walking out because the
machines were down and so people just
decided to leave Marci O'Connor she was
in our let she stayed more than three
hours because they ran out of ballots so
they had to go get more and then you
Lisa Perez she is currently in line
right now at keister Recreation Center
in Dallas so people waiting people
getting frustrated that's a big part of
the discussion
all right Debra I will bring you in a
second Julia cut and tell us what you're
monitoring what folks are saying yeah so
I'm also on our tech flying to 149 seven
76028 and I know you talked about a
while ago if Lauren didn't get the 15
percent of voters she wouldn't get any
delegates I had somebody actually texted
in and asked what happens to the votes
cast for a candidate that drops out of
the race
one of those votes go Deborah will let
you respond to that we've got a lot of
calls about that you don't get a do-over
how many people call this thing
my candidate dropped out of the race do
I get to vote again no you don't get a
do-over
but those counted those votes just don't
get counted they get there they're for
that candidate but they won't get there
15% so yeah and Julie and Eric remind
folks again of the phone number you guys
can text us at this phone number four
nine seven seven six zero two eight
we're taking all your questions all
right so we have Julien and Eric
watching that as well so we heard about
some issues in Grand Prairie folks are
still in line I don't know if this is
your side of Grand Prairie or Dallas
that's my that's my side of okay here's
the interesting thing we have countywide
vote centers and so this is the first
big election where we've used them and
we've tried to tell people they could
vote anywhere in the county but what we
saw is how people do old habits they
went to their voting location and even
when we told them you can go right down
the street and there's no lying people
said I'm staying well then now when you
get to seven o'clock if people had moved
then they're there they're their stuff
because they couldn't go to another
location you had to be in line by 7:00
but hopefully both centers are working
and the more people learn about them and
become comfortable with them I think
we'll start to see the vote more evenly
distributed and folks were walking away
from Southwest branch library because
the now that was endeavour earlier today
early in the morning Tarrant County put
out a list and said these are the vote
locations where their lines are short
and they didn't put out more or less as
the day went on I mean you could have
done that the party put it up we did
that the party if you looked at our
account we were telling people where to
go we were calling judges and saying
there is no weight here put can you put
a sign out can you go out and tell
people in the line so we tried to do
that and we had several people who said
at several people who said I tried to
vote downtown at lunch it was massive I
left went to the East Branch Library I
was in and out in ten minutes
my own daughter went to the Hanley
Center and said mom I stayed in line an
hour I said I told you to go to the east
branch location she went and it was in
out in ten minutes and so it's just
getting people to believe that both
centers really work and they can vote
anywhere in the county
obviously the machines will be moved
next time to play yes we will have a
better chance you know in Tarrant County
the machines were allocated based on the
2016 election Republicans took 61% of
the vote to Democrats 39 so just a
little rusty yeah we've been working
hard on getting buck there about 35
years this but this election matters and
people know that and so I've heard more
people who stood in line and people sent
me notes and said it was invigorating I
didn't you know I hated being there for
two hours but I tell you it was worth it
I feel like I'm excited now a lot of you
and I have been watching the whole time
to see what the turnout was gonna be
today you've covered a lot of news in
this state aid 40 an hour and a half an
hour and 45 minutes after polls closed
and folks are still in line that's
surprising to me yeah it is I mean it's
it's a couple things I think people are
excited especially like we've talked
about tonight the last 24 48 hours for
the Democratic presidential nomination
and the shifting there in that field and
people wanting to cast their ballots but
also I mean you know I was directing my
husband today in Travis County where to
go because he was going to go to a
Fiesta and it had like an hour wait and
I you left him alone and came up here no
I was in front of my computer and
directed him to an elementary school
that had no weight and he said he was in
and out so I think it's these resources
and people knowing I think a lot of
people you know it's tradition to maybe
wait to vote on Election Day at their
precinct that they're polling place but
come on I mean it's also be efficient
and you know maybe go elsewhere it
indeed so Jason wheeler you're watching
on Twitter people were talking about as
well yeah you know we've been talking
about collin county and the huge turnout
that they had there this evening I know
some people are still online not sure
that this is still the case there this
was somebody posted this to Twitter the
Collin County Democrats actually posting
this to Twitter 20 minutes before the
polls closed so it's been some time
since this was posted but you see this
line just snakes all the way around the
building and this is beef just before
the polls closed 300 people they said
we're still in line waiting to even get
into the the gymnasium there at the
elementary
at Evans middle school rather in
McKinney so that they could cast their
ballots so looks like it was definitely
a long night for a lot of people wanted
to point out also on Twitter here that
John Cornyn is thanking Texans for
giving him another run at it this time
around of course he's been senator here
since 2002 we are watching the primary
tonight to find out who will take him on
and president Trump also thanking Texas
for the win here that wasn't really in
any doubt this evening let me pull that
up real quick in fact he's already been
declared the winner with 91 94 percent
of the of the vote that has been coming
in they won that came in second place
there by the way was just called
uncommitted so that's the second biggest
vote getter on the Republican side
behind the president still of course
watching the presidential race there
with the Democrats here in Texas Sanders
has been holding on to this six-point
lead all night long over Joe Biden but
it's important to point out here that
the numbers just haven't been moving
very much I don't know if it's just me
but here we are at 8:47 and you know the
polls closed an hour and 47 minutes ago
in Harris County the largest in the in
the state we've got zero percent of the
precincts reporting so we're looking at
an early vote there Dallas I'm not
seeing any precincts reporting there
either
San Antonio hasn't even made it on here
I know that we've gotten some early vote
that we reported just a little while ago
and then 1% in Travis County so some
some pretty low numbers being reported
so far and again we were really
interested to see if a dynamic changed
when we got that momentum shift for the
Biden campaign yesterday we were really
looking to see if that dynamic changes
as we head through the evening but we've
just seen so little of the today vote so
we're still looking for that and
hopefully it comes soon Jason this feels
like it's taking a long time
question for you here Jason yeah
I want to ask the panel we're seeing
these big lines does this mean more
Democrats will be voting in the fall or
is it this anomaly of you know not
enough machines in the way that this
election started does this really mean
there's any sort of blue wave coming in
the fall
what can we read into these numbers now
and are they really in places that mean
something in November well I think the
interesting thing is I think you know
when we see that you know posted on
Twitter that we do have to you know
couch that and say yeah of course this
was posted by Collin County Democrats we
have no idea of course which way any of
these people leans were there going in
there to get a Republican ballot or a
Democratic ballot so we don't know how
they ended up casting their votes so you
know the turnout has just been enormous
no matter how you slice it and we showed
that earlier this is this is a
democratic turnout
early voting here in Texas compared to
previous elections the greens that you
see here is 2020 that was just the early
vote all of these orange ones they would
have put those in the shadows but that
was 2008 which was the high-water mark
when Obama first ran and so you can see
that there was quite a surge of voting
over these yellows which were 2016 so
Democrats no doubt pleased with some of
the turnout that they've seen across the
state it does appear that this race got
people energized we don't know what that
does in November though are there some
hurt feelings or you know is there is a
party fractured going forward after
Super Tuesday and beyond do we get to a
brokered convention how many hard
feelings are there once a winner is
finally picked Joe Biden has won
Minnesota that's the last thing that
just happened in the last few seconds
here but let's talk about what Jason and
bud were talking about a moment ago
Deborah's excited
she's tickled to death about the
Democratic turnout as a Republican what
do you what do you read into this I
think we don't have any math to go by so
again this is a presidential primary
where you know it actually counted you
know in Texas so yes Democrats are very
excited I think we've seen some really
good numbers from Republicans turning
out when there's really nothing on the
ballot you know so a good point
I think this fall record you think so
for the GOP
yep for everybody
let's talk about another race that we
haven't touched on this is a Democratic
race this is district 24 it's Kim Olson
and Candace Valenzuela and this is going
to go into a runoff Kim Olson of course
has run for Congress before she was on
TV a lot with ads lately she is at 42
percent of the vote this is one percent
reporting statewide though sure exactly
what this is from the statewide since
this district stretches in new Tarrant
County and into Dallas County Kim bolson
is at 36%
kennis Valenzuela is at 34 almost 35
percent does that surprise you but you
know there's an anomaly between there's
actually more votes in both Dallas and
Tarrant County showing than on the
statewide website so that maybe like
early Denton or something but uh but you
know Kim Olson was trying to win this
without a runoff tennis Valenzuela very
strong Canada Carrollton school board
trustee supported by emily's list and
you know felt like she would be the
progressive kind of a personality almost
like a Colin Allred type of personality
who might be the stronger candidate
against Bevin down to the fall but Kim
Olson came in with all the name and the
money in the history so it's a real
showdown between them to see who will
face Beth Van Dyne for that open
congressional seat Deborah did a
surprise you this one to a runoff yeah
this is going to go into runnel too well
all the candidates were great candidates
but Kim ran a very strong campaign a lot
of good name ID going into it I know
Candice a lot of was in Tarrant County a
lot they really worked the area and so
you had candidates out there so it
didn't surprise me at all we had five
people in that race and Jan McDowell
who's run before and almost one it
worked it was out there so I didn't
surprise me
editor Jan McDowell for the best ads of
the campaign her radio ads on the ticket
during dan McDowell show on the ticket
where she said I'm Jan McDowell vote for
me because I have the name like dan
Mendell you know I'm a Texas Tech Red
Raider vote for me I mean just a very
clever if any that's genius is to you
know and if it was an ad agency in
Washington DC they would
I've come up with that so that's good
stuff but that's a good race to watch I
know Democrats are really excited about
the opportunity to pick it up from the
do the open market seat which they
almost won last time that's what I think
it's gonna be a completely different
situation with Beth Van Dyne she's a
great candidate and it's gonna be a lot
of money in that race but that that
district has shifted it is not as red
red at all Alana I want to pull you in
here on this race not on this race here
but I want to shift off briefly to
Colorado has gone for Bernie Sanders
Oklahoma's for Biden Biden is one in
Minnesota he is racking up some wins
here for the night when it looked like
that you know Bloomberg is really
slicing into that yeah I think so I mean
like I said Biden you know see across
the board taking off what his sixth win
tonight at the 14 you know just helps
him with fundraising and propel him
forward I mean we have what Michigan on
Tuesday Florida on March 17th so I think
if anything it just propels him from
what we saw last night happened here in
Dallas with the coalition of the
establishment getting behind him
Debra it looks to me like that this
could be a three-way three-way race for
the Democratic presidential nomination
Bernie Biden and Bloomberg but don't
lose it Warren says he's not getting out
so do you think she'll stay yeah she
said she's not getting out yeah but she
couldn't win her home stay okay but I
know a lot of Warren supporters who want
her to stay in so don't count her out
yet but no I think Bloomberg has really
surprised a lot of people put a lot a
lot of money in this race
they were polling the last time I looked
he is polling in about 13 14 percent
look enemies coming in and 18 percent
you know so far so interesting yeah
indeed it is so we're going to come back
here in just a moment ever people's is
the chairwoman for the Tarrant County
Democratic Party Alana Roach's from The
Texas Tribune but Kennedy Fort Worth
star-telegram and Vinny mean cello from
Glass House strategies in Dallas don't
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Cynthia gave it in F Chris Lauren so
we're getting a clearer look at who
Texans are voting for in the Democratic
presidential primary let's take a look
now give you an update on where those
numbers stand again it's early but
Bernie Sanders has had about a 5 to 6
percent lead from early on and it is
stayed fairly consistent against Sanders
right now getting about 29% of the vote
Joe Biden behind him at 23% and there's
Michael Bloomberg appearing on ballots
for the first time tonight remember he
skipped a lot of the early contests he's
up near 20 percent of the vote they're
very strong showing and then Elizabeth
Warren at 13 percent in four yeah
Michael Bloomberg battling it out for
second place with Joe Biden but of
course Bernie Sanders is leading the
pack right now let's take a live look at
Bernie's watch party in Vermont we are
expecting to hear from the senator at
any moment now but back here in Texas he
is in the lead and you know he had hoped
to boost turnout among young and Latino
voters it was a core part of his
coalition here and it looks like it has
paid off let's talk about how slow going
it is right now though is the votes are
being tallied it is a snail's pace and
you know we say that he's been sort of
holding this 5 and 6 percent lead
throughout the evening but then when you
think about it you really look at the
numbers the numbers are moving so that's
kind of making him hold it even longer I
want to go down the list here because
this has to be said so first of all the
AP is calling Vermont and Colorado in
favor of senator Bernie Sanders all of
these you see in dark green are being
called for Biden we have 8% of our vote
counted most of these have 32 2885 73%
of their precincts reporting don't know
what's going on here in Texas Chris and
Izzi all right Jason we'll check back in
with you and that's just a glimpse of
our coverage both on air and on
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all right so let's update some of the
Texas numbers that we have been getting
into the newsroom tonight so let's take
a look at the very top this is the
Democratic race for president statewide
numbers this is nine percent reporting
Bernie Sanders ahead of Joe Biden a
substantial margin there 67 percent
but Michael Bloomberg's not far from Joe
Biden on this and the one that Deborah
people said don't count out Elizabeth
Warren's in fourth place in 13% I know
as a as a U of H student she probably
would have would have hoped to have done
a heck of a lot better there Bernie
Sanders leading Texas Joe Biden very
close notice though the top left of your
screen if you could see it if you're
watching it on a phone or a tablet or
something like that you know look down
real close reporting is 9% polls have
been closed for two hours we're gonna
talk about that in just a moment let's
move on through the rest of our results
here and and see how the rest of the
races are lining up are we the new Iowa
I don't know what's going on we didn't
use an app this year you would think
something is going on nobody wanted to
be opening the cold we have other nobody
yeah nobody no one wanted to be the new
Iowa if we have some other races we can
throw them up so this is the US Senator
this is the biggest statewide race we
are watching the Democratic race for US
Senate
MJ Hagar 30% of the vote Christina 10
soon Ramirez was 17% and state senator
Royce West with 10% and third place
again tiny little number in the top left
reporting a 6% and then the biggest
local race we're watching in North Texas
is the Republican nomination for u.s.
Congress district 12 kay Granger running
for re-election facing a strong campaign
from Chris Putnam but at the end of the
day kay Granger it looks like she might
easily win this when in fact she
essentially came out and already claimed
victory about an hour so ago but 3%
reporting their district 24 this is the
Republican race this is the Republican
that hopes to succeed
Kenny Marsh shot when he retires at the
end of this term
Beth Van Dyne the former mayor of Irving
crushing her competition 74% of the vote
this will not go into a runoff despite a
half 5 6
different contestants in this race as
well district 32 this is the Republican
race for the Republican who hopes to
challenge Colin Allred and Genevieve
Collins the front-runner here who had
the most money looks like this is a
little bit more than the early vote but
she's certainly pleased about this
number it's fifty one percent which may
prevent a runoff but there's only one
percent of the vote reporting Jason two
hours after the poll closed Jason
wheelers like for Jason's in our studio
tonight no and everyone turned around
Jason jezus looking over here to so
wheeler two hours after the polls closed
other states are a heck of a lot farther
along counting except maybe Iowa it's
just getting embarrassing yeah before we
go are we gonna finish tonight ahead of
Iowa we may I
you know California may start counting
the votes before we really get down into
it tonight Jason so let's just drag
people across the map here and let you
know what's going on first of all in
case you're just now joining us we got
Vermont and Colorado both of those have
been called by the AP in favor of Bernie
Sanders you know what he's talking right
now so let's go listen to him
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thank you for mugs
[Applause]
you know it's a it's a funny thing
31 years ago today we won the mayoral
race in Burlington Vermont
and we won that race against all of the
odds everybody said it couldn't be done
and when we began this race for the
presidency
everybody said it couldn't be done
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but tonight I tell you with absolute
confidence we are going to win the
Democratic nomination
and we are going to defeat the most
dangerous president in the history of
this country
[Applause]
we are going to win
we are going we are going to defeat
Trump because we are putting together an
unprecedented grassroots
multi-generational bowtie racial
movement
it is a movement which speaks to the
working families of this country who are
sick and tired of working longer hours
for low wages and seeing all new income
and wealth going to the top 1%
[Applause]
it is a movement which says the United
States will have health care for all as
a human right
[Applause]
it is a movement that says we will bring
major reforms in education making sure
that all of our kids can go to college
without coming out of debt
now what makes this movement unique is
we are taking on the corporate
establishment we are taking on the greed
of Wall Street's the greed of the drug
companies who charge us the highest
prices in the world
the greed of the insurance companies
and given the existential crisis of
climate change we are saying to the
fossil fuel industry
[Applause]
we are saying to the fossil fuel
industry their short-term profits are
not more important than the future of
our country in the world
but we are not only taking on the
corporate establishment we're taking on
the political establishment
[Applause]
but we're gonna win because the people
understand it is our campaign our
movement which is best positioned to
defeat Trump
you cannot beat Trump with the same-old
same-old kind of politics
what we need is a new politics that
brings working-class people into a
political movement which brings young
people into our political movement and
which in November will create the
highest voter turnout in American
political history
[Applause]
so we're gonna be Trump because this
will become a contrast in ideas one of
us in this race led the opposition to
the war in Iraq you looking at
[Applause]
another candidate voted for the war in
Iraq
one of us has spent his entire life
fighting against cuts in Social Security
exploiting to expand Social Security
another candidate has been on the floor
of the Senate calling for cuts to Social
Security Medicare Medicaid and veterans
bubble
one of us led the opposition to
disastrous trade agreements which cost
us millions of good-paying jobs and
that's me and another candidate voted
for disastrous trade agreements
one of us stood up for consumers and
said we will not support a disastrous
bankruptcy bill and another candidate
represented the credit card companies
and voted for that disastrous bill
so here we are we have two major goals
in front of us and they are directly
related first we must beat a president
who apparently has never read the
Constitution of the United States
[Applause]
a president who thinks we should be an
autocracy not a democracy
but second of all we need a movement and
are developing of move in a black white
Latino Native American Asian American
gay and straight
of people who are making it clear every
day they will not tolerate the grotesque
level of income and wealth inequality we
are experiencing we will not give tax
breaks to billionaires when a half a
million Americans sleep out of the
streets
[Applause]
we will not allow 49 percent of all new
income to go to the 1% when half of our
people living paycheck to paycheck now I
don't know what's gonna happen later
tonight we're doing well in Texas right
now
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we won Colorado
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and I'm cautiously optimistic that later
in the evening we can win the largest
state in this country the state of
California
but no matter what happens if this
campaign and I don't know what will
happen but if it comes out to be a
campaign in which we have one candidate
who is standing up for the working class
and the middle class we're going to win
that election and if we have another
candidate who has received contributions
from at least 60 billionaire's we're
going to win that election
and if there is another candidate in the
race who is spending hundreds and
hundreds of millions of dollars we're
going to tell him in America
you cannot buy elections so Bernie
Sanders taken a huge victory lap here
even though we haven't seen what happens
in California the polls are open there
for another 45 minutes out on the west
coast but Joe Biden was winning some
seats now the big question winning some
states rather not seats I need to add
another consonant to that but the big
question we were talking about a moment
ago is what's going on with the results
in Texas we called down to the Secretary
of State's office evidently it's so slow
coming in because folks are still in
line in Harris County in Tarrant County
and in Dallas County so these major
urban centers with thousands of votes
have not been able to report yet because
folks are still physically casting their
ballots some two hours after the polls
closed and you saw something else that
you'd like to mention about Michael
Bloomberg because this goes back to what
you said a moment ago Vinny right about
why Bloomberg hasn't already purchased
ads beyond Wednesday right he's ahead by
what ends on Wednesday and it's
reporting right now that he's going to
be reassessing the campaign tomorrow he
is disappointed with the results from
tonight and and he should be I mean he
spent a fortune and you can't
third-place your way to the nomination
he's still walking away with Delegates
but he did not easily win in any state
tonight he's looking at that as a pretty
big loss yeah he's yeah I mean I think
he was looking for some wins and some
second places that would have been a
that would have been a victory for him
but it's admits it's a bad night for
advertising
which is your industry and but is notice
something else about we're talking about
the delays and why it's taking so long
to get the results in Texas here's a
perfect example the bud finds on Twitter
here's Lou at Texas Southern University
in Houston earlier they sent 68 more
machines over from other locations
sending more machines for this line
that's wrapping all throughout the TSU
campus around the stadium and now the
the machines they have have to be
rebooted to connect all the new machines
so they're all standing in line they've
been standing and haven't moved for half
an hour while they reboot these 68 added
machines
try to finish the vote and a lot of we
were joking a moment ago this this could
be like I went a sense we go to bed
tonight not knowing exactly who wins or
what the delegates split is I mean our
Alexa Luda is reporting long lines at
Texas college campuses around the state
in Dallas at Ripley house in Houston at
Wilson Elementary in Houston so yeah I
mean if people haven't even cast their
ballot we're not gonna be getting
results for quite a while and if
anyone's happy tonight is Debra over
here is like HM that's right your
boarders want the numbers and you are
the votes this is what makes us
different from Iowa in Iowa they had a
bad reporting system ours is this is
moved by people power you've got all
these people out who want to vote and so
I think when people understand that they
are more willing to wait for results we
in some polling places we had four times
the people that we expected there there
was no way
I mean people could some people waited
in line you know two hours but when
there's no way you can forecast that you
know you you we sit down and look at
things and say okay well it may be
double what it was not four times I mean
I mean I'm a static but in Texas having
too many Democrats is considered a
problem waiting until South Carolina
results came in to decide we we have
been working for years to get people to
early vote I mean we've started to move
it a little bit to either vote by mail
at an early vote this time we were more
successful but a lot of people did say
they don't trust the system they like
to go vote on Election Day they like the
thrill of voting on Election Day but I
think the more time they have to wait in
line it'll start changing that behavior
we've got a little by little see more
people moved to early voting and we were
about 50/50 in 10 our County about 50%
of our votes came from early voting and
the other 50% came on a second day the
reporting delays are affecting the
presidential race in Texas affecting the
statewide race for the Democratic
nomination for US Senate but one race
that is a regional race is kay Granger
the congresswoman from Tarrant County
she will return to Congress it appears
winning her nomination again winning the
seat again beating Chris Putnam but you
bring up a good point you say that Chris
Putnam at as an ad guy Vinny you say
Chris Putnam made a mistake
well first off I mean Ken Granger had
brilliant advertising so we got to give
her that I think was take Ranger client
I presume a peg Ranger was a client I
think didn't the mistake the Putnam made
is he never he never went positive he
went negative from the beginning and and
negative at the end and he never became
a person that you wanted to get to know
or trust with your vote and against kay
Granger a person that people know and
trust well and have for many years yeah
you've you've got to you've got to make
that connection there's going to be a
Democrat thrown into the well I don't I
mean I agree with you but the Granger
cat of Granger campaign made mistakes
too so I'll disagree with you because
there is so there's such a thick file of
noxious material about Chris Putnam so
much more than a Democrat would have
used it a general election that the
Granger campaign just scattershot
everything out there and accused it with
30 different things without ever really
focusing on one or two points now I got
all this mail about all these things
that he did
instead of do two or three things that
were really waiting points in it almost
was confusing to see so many different
things that were objectionable Chris
what about Chris Putnam what we have a
single win 6040 yes she did win 6040 it
appears that's what the
showing right now let's go to Teresa
would her right now she's in Austin with
the MJ Hegar campaign and I would
imagine they're pretty anxious down
there waiting like all of us for you
know the rest of these statewide numbers
Teresa yeah definitely we just got our
first look at MJ Hegar within the last
15 minutes or so she came down to mingle
with some of her supporters and here's
what she says she told them the early
numbers are looking good but she's not
ready to make a statement she did say
the number that she is most excited
about is turnout a lot of the supporters
in the room gave her a loud round of
applause they're all very excited I've
talked to a couple of veterans who were
here and they say they're supporting her
because of course she is an Air fact Air
Force combat veterans shot down during
one of her free tours over Afghanistan
you know one of the other funny things
about MJ Hegar she proudly rides a
motorcycle she wears tattoos and they're
given away temporary tattoos here
tonight as well we'll keep watching
we'll send it back to you alright of
course those tattoos Theresa cover up
her shrapnel wounds that she had on her
arms
let's break away again for another
update for our broadcast audience and
we'll see you back here in just a few
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thank you for joining WFAA special
coverage of Super Tuesday it is a big
night for the state of Texas we have two
and 228 delegates that stay here
I'm Cindy a forgiver and I'm Chris
Lawrence and now that the polls have
closed in California it is time to cut
the votes and determine who won where
let's take a quick look at what's
happening right here in Texas numbers
just got updated they are inching along
only about 16% reporting but right now
Bernie Sanders is leading here in Texas
with 29% of the vote he has held that 5
to 6 percent lead on Joe Biden pretty
much the entire night Joe Biden there
with 24% Michael Bloomberg on these
ballots for the first time tonight he is
in at 18% that would be enough to
qualify for a delegate Elizabeth Warren
there in 4th at 13% now in the last hour
senator spoke to his supporters at a
raucous rally in Vermont here's what he
said we are gonna win the Democratic
nomination
and we are going to defeat the most
dangerous president in the history of
this country and again Bernie the leader
here in Texas at Jason White Lee and
Jason wheeler have been providing
political analysis all night what stands
out to you guys well let's start with
the delays you know it's taken forever
to get these numbers in we just heard
back from some folks in Austin the
Secretary of State's office why is this
so slow wise for eighteen percent
reporting for the president two and a
half hours after it closed why because
people are still in line in Harris
County in Tarrant County in Dallas
County in Collin County in Denton County
the major population areas have yet to
send their vote totals down there
because people are still voting to get
people voting still how much do you
think Biden is loving that because he's
gotten recent momentum he had all of
these endorsements yesterday the early
vote went to a lot of these people who
have already dropped out of the race
how much is he loving the fact that so
many people lined up to vote in Texas
I'm guessing he is considering the green
on your map here shows the states that
Biden is one I believe he's talking
right now Nicole do you want to go to
that and listen to the vice president
and guess what we're the places we come
from many of you come from it's where we
raised the people they're the reason why
I'm running there's a reason why I'm a
Democrat in the first place
these are people we'll build our bridges
repair our roads keep our water safe who
teach our kids look who race into
burning buildings to protect other
people who grow our food build our cars
pick up our garbage our streets veterans
dreamers single moms and by the way
every dreamer have hope because I'm
coming and you're not going anywhere and
we're going to pride a pathway a pathway
for 11 million citizens if the other
guys voted for the I don't should get
into that I won't get going look the
iron workers still work Joe Biden live
in Los Angeles he is currently in second
place here in Texas and we will get into
it though you know vice president said
he didn't wanna get into that comment
there but Joe Biden having a you know of
a pretty good night here I asked him
last night when he was in Dallas what
does a wind look like for you he didn't
say first place he downplayed it and
just said essentially you know I just
hope to do well in this state he had to
say that in one sense but at the end of
the day he did pretty well Mike
Bloomberg outperforming folks as well
the polls showed he would get like 10 12
percent he did much better than that
according to the vote totals we've seen
at the end of the day Bernie Sanders
likely to walk away with California he
is ahead in Texas to rise and when you
look at what's happening in Texas also
with that you wonder those small
percentages on that went to peat buddha
jayan aim and Clovis Shar that aren't
really gonna are sorry aren't gonna
count our coverage continues both on air
and online we'll see you for a full
update at 10:00
you
and that's how it should be because we
need to bring everybody along everybody
we want a nominee who will beat Donald
Trump but also also keep Mansi Pelosi
the Speaker of the House went back to
United States Senate but that's as you
want join us and they want a nominee
who's a Democrat a lifelong Democrat a
proud Democrat an obama/biden Democrat
join us look this all starts with the
revival of decency and honor and
character Trump has Flair has fanned the
flames of hate and sought to divide us
he's insulted demonized
and actually just the way he talks about
people he has not a single sense of
empathy he doesn't have any compassion
no regard for the values that made this
country who we are not the way you were
raised by your moms and dads he looks at
honesty in decency and respect and he
views it as a sign of weakness he
doesn't believe that we're the beacon to
the world he doesn't believe we're all
part of something bigger than ourselves
that's why I've said from the moment I
announced for this candidacy we're
literally in the battle for the soul of
America folks Witte means u-19 America
not sowing seeds of division and anger
and hate we got a beat Donald Trump but
we will but we can't become like him
we can't have a never-ending war between
the parties we didn't a president could
fight but may no make no mistake about I
can fight but look we need us badly as
badly someone who could heal look
Jessica we did we passed Obamacare what
President Obama and I did saving the
American automobile industry or what we
did to pass the Violence Against Women
Act and what that was not enough this is
just a start we need a president can
heal the country as well and that is
what I will do as your president I
promise you it's about reliving
delivering real results for you your
family and the community it's not about
me Jill or Valerie it's about you it's
about our families it's a paraphrase
English poet Robert Brown and he said
our reach should exceed our grasp and my
reach does exceed our grasp because
there's no doubt on my mind
we can grasp whatever we reach for
ladies and gentlemen I quoted an English
poet but let me call the real poet now
an Irish poet Seamus Heaney who wrote a
poem called accurate Rory here's what he
says and I believe this to the bottom of
my being
he said history says don't hope on this
side of the grave but then once in a
lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of
justice rises up and hope and history
rhyme we can make hope and history rhyme
because what we say there's nothing we
can't do this is about the future it's
not about the past about our children
and our grandchildren it's about leading
this country and leading the world once
again folks we just have to remember who
we are my lord this is the United States
of America
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this time for America to get back up and
once again fight for the proposition
that we hold these truths to be
self-evident that all men and women are
created equal endowed by the creator
with certain inalienable rights we said
so often in school we don't realize how
profound it is we've never lived up to
those words but until this president
we've never walked away from it ladies
and gentlemen I believe with every fiber
of my being that's who we are so let's
get back up we are a decent brave
resilient people we could believe again
but we are we are better than this
moment we are better than this president
so get back up and take back this
country the United States of America
there's not a single thing we can't do
god bless you and may God protect our
troops thank you thank you thank you
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pay you because I didn't pay me anything
the other thing though when it when I
realized that I found a race that's
going to some people are going to race
the money that don't even live in the
district you're going to say I'm gonna
put a million dollars or maybe two
million dollars maybe three million
dollars and I said I you know I've got a
job do how I do that
sir Bonjean she just said I can do this
K and she stepped up and she said of
schedule and we did it and she is like
the magic person some people just step
in for me and then you say how do you do
it on the ground
Bobby Rodriquez where's Bob right there
he's the land person it's a person
that's on on the ground and saying
here's some things you do can you this
Thursday no I'm in Washington so I just
want you to know that that's the
situation there's some scrub there so
problem about the results but but right
now what's happening with me it's a
60/40 dear person okay you're not to
come into you have to read
got 38 percent reported in Tarrant
County the biggest County 14090 one
votes for kay Granger 9172 for the for
the guy that doesn't live in the county
you want to break that down that is
60/40 60% for K Granger 40% for her
opponent with 38% reporting that's
including early vote it's pretty much
over thank you so much thank you so much
for supporting me and also advising me
and I just don't just I don't ask people
just support me then help me be better
thank you so much I've got people like
my Eastside girls would call them these
are these women that we grew up together
we went through elementary through high
school and and they came to it and we
get together every year thank you for
all of you and always you can always say
Kay you can do this better and I'll
listen I love you thank you so much for
this thank you so much of this victory I
will never forget it ever
and I'll always keep promises
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to hear themselves talk so maybe we need
a few more people who can listen
hundreds of thousands of people across
the state tonight have Andover early
voting have stood with us and I am
really excited to tell you that we are
walking into the runoff in the strongest
possible position thanks to the army of
people across the state who have come
together and all put an oar in the water
and all pulled in the same direction and
put us in the strongest possible
position to take on John Cornyn in
November and I am so so so excited for
that you know what y'all it's time I as
a combat veteran I'm concerned about the
values of this country that are under
attack and as a working mom I am
terrified about my kids future if we
leave it in the hands of people like
Senator John Cornyn we are fighting to
get access to quality affordable health
care for all Texans we are fighting to
not allow the government to tell a woman
that she has to have a child to force a
woman to have children before she's
ready
we are fighting so that you can choose
who you love and who you marry and not
let the government tell you that we're
fighting to get aggressive action on
climate change before it's too late
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and I want to thank you for standing
with me against a corrupt system that is
not working for us and how can we expect
it to work for us when the people who
are in that system by and large not all
of them but certainly John Cornyn are
serving the special interests the gun
lobby the private prison industry and
big pharma and not us so I have a
message for everyone who has fought
tooth and nail with us we I feel like
we've been doing this a long time we've
been doing this almost a year now and
frankly that's what it took to build an
army of people the grassroots enthusiasm
across this state I want to thank the
candidates that are in this race I know
that we don't know yet who's going into
the runoff with me but I want to thank
you for lending your voice and your your
viewpoints to this conversation thank
you for serving your community I am
through so thrilled that we have a bench
of people and I'm looking forward to
working with y'all in the future
and I want to have one more message
because my kids are already asleep
luckily so I don't have to send out a
message to them my last message is for
you John Cornyn
your time is done because you've sold us
out we've given you plenty of time and
it's over you're fired
pack it up buttercup cuz I'm coming for
your seat thank you so much see you guys
in the runoff
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it's the biggest night yet in the race
for president I mean the energy we need
excitement 14 states voting hundreds of
delegates on the line we're in it to win
it and the battle in Texas matters more
than ever it's gonna boil down to a
Biden or Bernie decision after tonight
who will be left standing
plus the hot races in Texas a longshot
bid to unseat a senator and the
Republican clash for Congress the polls
are closed in Texas and the early
results are in it's Super Tuesday live
from South victory you're watching WFA
News at Ten it is Super Tuesday and
votes are still coming in from all over
Texas I'm Cynthia Thielen and I'm Chris
Lawrence there is a lot at stake here
tonight but the results have been coming
in so slowly that's why we can't name a
projected winner what we can't tell you
is right now Bernie Sanders is leading
in Texas we're Joe Biden close behind
look we are covering all the races from
every angle from our social media team
to our panel of experts and that ticker
on the bottom of your screen providing
instant updates but we have to start
with Lee political reporter Jason White
Lee and Jason we're hearing about some
issues in the last half hour what's
going on indeed so we knew the race
would be closed we didn't think it would
take this long to get results in Texas
the bottom line is they did not expect
so many people to go out and vote that's
a great problem to have the problem is
is taking hours and hours to count the
votes and we understand in some places
in the state people are still voting
here is the the here's the number to pay
attention to obviously you want to see
how the candidates did but three hours
after polls closed in Texas the number
to watch is a top left that tiny number
that says reporting 31% three hours
after polls closed we can only tell you
that Bernie Sanders has a third of the
boat Joe Biden has a quarter of it and
Michael Bloomberg across the 15 percent
threshold to at least win delegates in
this state so that's the big deal there
Bernie Sanders though already taking
credit for this speaking to supporters
tonight in Burlington Vermont
but tonight I tell you with absolute
confidence we are gonna win the
Democratic nomination
and we are going to defeat the most
dangerous president in the history of
this country
so polls closed in California about two
and a half minutes ago and The
Associated Press is already calling the
race in California 415 delegates for
Bernie Sanders he's walking away the big
winner but we don't know how close this
might be when all the results are
counted in Texas Jason you've been
pulling your hair out man I have been
look getting bored over here at the
touchscreen tonight waiting to come down
so let's put this in perspective for you
and just kind of jog across the map here
we'll go into what these colors all mean
later on let's start with Massachusetts
62% of the precincts are reporting
they're in Maine we got 58% Tennessee
88% 100% in Oklahoma what all of those
have in common is those polls all closed
at the same time ours did then the
people who closed after us Arkansas 71%
Colorado 44% Utah 49% Minnesota 61% of
the delegate I mean of the precincts
have been reporting so far let's bring
it in to Texas now because we were just
talking about the latest numbers that
just came down a moment ago and my
machine doesn't want to work just like
there's dough let's pull in Texas here
real quick so we're seeing I got
Tennessee the wrongs he's done he looks
me that happens to me when I book things
all the time to 26% of precincts
reporting it says here we just got an
update over there and and so what what's
going on here is we've got these major
population centers look at Houston
Harris County here 5% of the precincts
reporting this is three hours after the
polls were supposed to close tonight we
have seen an uptick in Dallas well we're
at 4% now of precincts reporting there
so that's not looking great
Austin 1% you see these major population
centers let's get you down to San
Antonio there they're not even listing a
precinct percentage right now and Jason
everywhere that you see gray on this map
all of these pockets of gray nothing's
been reported no early voting has been
reported no day of voting has been
reported and we know that ballots were
cast in here we're seeing nothing
and that's majority rural areas there
too we're also hearing from our folks at
the Secretary of State's office which is
the
the organization that counts all the
votes is the state organization that
apparently Dallas County is having
trouble reporting the presidential race
by senatorial district you do that for
delegate so the campaigns know exactly
how many delegates that are getting
there apparently having to do that
manually that's gonna be delaying some
of the numbers for Jason I do want to
point out one more thing here these top
three that you see here if it holds like
this Bernie Sanders Joe Biden and
Michael Bloomberg would all get
delegates out of this because they've
all gone above that 15 percent threshold
so this wouldn't be just one person who
does away with all of it good deal back
to you in a moment Jason let's head
across to the other side of our studio
here and talk to our experts who've been
adding context and perspective with the
numbers the few numbers we have seen so
far let me introduce you to the panel
we'll start here with Vinny Minh chiloe
he is a principal at Glass House
strategies but Kennedy is from the Fort
Worth star-telegram on a lot of our
programs alana rocha flew up from austin
she is with the Texas Tribune and of
course Debra people's with the Tarrant
County Democratic Party she is the
chairwoman thank you guys for being here
Debra let's start with you biggest
takeaway from tonight
voter turnout I don't think you're
tickled to death about that something
Democrats are Republicans were prepared
for the kind of voter turnout we're
seeing and so I think you can look at
those major centers and there are people
still in line that are voting and I
think that has to be a great thing for
Texas and as somebody who's in charge of
kind of the layout in Tarrant County you
couldn't see this coming you couldn't
see though all the interest and
excitement in this oh well we saw a lot
of interest in excitement but as I said
earlier in some locations we had four
times the vote that we had in 2016 and
up from 2018 there is no way to predict
that we were expecting a nice uptick but
nothing like we've seen Alana well we
just published a story that MJ Hegar and
the US Senate race the Democratic race
there and Royce West were going to be in
the runoff maybe I mean that's how it
was looking and then I checked our our
website and actually Christy did sand
Sumer mayor's has surpassed him for the
second spot so it's just take away for
the night is it's gonna be a long night
yeah having been in Iowa reporting there
I know it was a long night there and I
worry about Texas too but biggest
takeaway from tonight well we I mean
nationally we look at the
Bloomberg did better in Texas than we
thought Elizabeth Warren did much much
worse but locally I mean you look at
congresswoman kay Granger about a 60/40
win over Chris Putnam who came in spent
a couple of million dollars trying to
unseat an incumbent and got nowhere ran
into a stone wall again and in Tarrant
County it you just can't come out of
nowhere with no name ID and a little
rice and Vinny left less common hero
mostly we don't know if it's possible to
buy a presidential election but we know
500 million dollars is not enough to get
it done and of course the big question
is what happens to Mike Bloomberg what
happens to Elizabeth Warren they didn't
perform as well as they had hoped to
Jason wheelers back at the touchscreen
Jason yeah you know what we have when we
look at this map tonight is we've got a
two candidate race at this point for the
Democratic presidential nomination at
least looking at tonight anyway it looks
like right now the AP is calling these
dark green states that you see here
Minnesota Oklahoma Arkansas Tennessee
Virginia North Carolina Alabama and
Massachusetts for Joe Biden the ones
that you see in dark purple here Vermont
Colorado Utah and California have been
called for Bernie Sanders the light
green that you see up here Joe Biden is
leading by a razor thin margin there in
Maine that one's too close to call and
of course we might be the last ones
counted tonight here in Texas here's
where things stand right now Bernie
Sanders ahead here by about three
percentage points that's with 29 percent
of the precincts reporting as far as
we're looking at the numbers here that
is a tighter margin than we have seen
for most of the night Bernie Sanders had
been carrying a 5 and 6 percent margin
through much of the night and so as that
vote continues to trickle in through the
evening we could see this tighten up
even more or maybe someone pulls away
all right one theme of course that we
keep talking about that we've seen all
night long all over North Texas are long
lines as people head out there to vote
jhope and panikker in fact has been
tracking down folks he is live in
McKinney tonight and you saw this
yourself today joven we had some really
really long lines throughout North Texas
now get this this just came in to our
newsroom this work came into our
newsroom
that someone in Tarrant County had voted
at 9:41 p.m. that's been confirmed
that's almost three
after polls close here now we've been
hearing about one our wait times two our
wait times and now we're hearing
possibly now three our wait times now
elections administrators understand the
frustration from voters but in the same
breath they say you had eleven days to
early vote on this now we want to show
you some video from earlier today here
are the lines at Oak Lawn library it is
well after sun wept to the sun went down
the lines stretched out the doors around
the building and into the parking lot
people were on their phones passing time
just waiting this out and now look at
this view from HD chopper 8 this is in
Allen elections administrator Bruce
sherbet tells me tells me this place
historically has long lines in Dallas we
had some malfunction malfunctioning
voting machines that led to some lines
now by now in most counties you can vote
anywhere in your County the whole point
of that is to make voting easier and to
reduce these lines you know you have 11
days of early voting and then you have
Election Day but but voters turning out
heavy on Election Day especially in the
afternoon there's going to be lines and
there's no way to avoid that in any
situation now in some counties we heard
about long lines for Democrat voters
because the disproportionate number of
machines available we have been told
that Democrat and Republican parties are
responsible for divvying up those
machines now Tarrant County went on the
offensive mid day this week in the tweet
saying we told both parties to share
those machines clearly that did not
happen back to you guys all right thank
you Joe thank you thank you very much
you know I took me an hour to vote
earlier this morning in Dallas County
but you know the law lines are not a
North Texas
issue it's happening all over the state
just look at what's happening near
Houston you heard Jason wheeler say that
area is only reporting about 5% of its
votes votes right now well here's why
thousands of people waiting outside in
line to vote and a lot of them sort of
as Joba mention blaming a system that
splits voters by party in fact at one
site so many people were waiting they
had to bring in extra voting machines
all right now did the Democratic primary
for US Senate it started as a huge field
of 12 candidates trying to unseat
Republican incumbent John Cornyn and we
now know who will be in the runoff race
and
Haggar she was the favorite headed into
this race and she remains on top with
26% of the vote and in the number-two
spot right now at least with 22% of
precincts reported is Dallas Senator
Royce West with 14% of a vote but this
is really close have a look at who's in
number three Christina send soon Ramirez
with 13% of the vote a very close race
to continue watching here tonight let's
get to Theresa Woodard she's live in
Austin with MJ hey Garth campaign what
are they telling you there Theresa well
they're excited no doubt MJ Hegar
is an Air Force veteran she survived
being shot down during her third tour of
duty in Afghanistan and she told me
tonight that running against a longtime
Republican like incumbent John Cornyn
will be a cakewalk compared to what she
had to deal with during her military
time she raised more money than any of
the other 11 Democratic candidates in
this primary and it worked
Haggar by all indications we'll be one
of the top two vote-getters into semuc r
attic primary she has what looks to be a
commanding lead in statewide results so
she will go to this runoff the question
is who's she going to face we might not
know that until tomorrow because it is
that tight race among several other
candidates tonight here in Austin Hagar
told her supporters she is walking into
the runoff in the strongest possible
position
you know what y'all it's time as a
combat veteran I'm concerned about the
values of this country that are under
attack and as a working mom I am
terrified about my kids future if we
leave it in the hands of people like
Senator John Cornyn
so what do we expect from this campaign
over the course of the next couple of
months until the run off it is all about
blanketing the state increasing her name
recognition and presence all across the
Lone Star State back to you all right
thanks Teresa you know whoever wins that
runoff will have to face incumbent
senator John Koerner and he won the
Republican primary by a landslide
Alex Rozier is at cornets campaign rally
in Austin how are they feelin Alex yeah
Chris they are energized but they say
they are not taking anything for granted
especially following the tightness of
the Ted Cruz back to o'rourke race in
2018 Cornyn just finished a ten-city
two-day tour it wrapped here in Austin
tonight and he spoke to his supporters a
few hours ago we have put together an
incredible grassroots machine to help
propel us to victory not just tonight
but in November 2020 as matt said we are
united as one party and we go into the
general election stronger than we have
ever been before a couple of quick notes
he hired Greg Abbott's campaign manager
to run his reelection campaign he's
already raised more than twelve million
dollars Cornyn says if he gets his way
he'll help Republicans win from the
White House to the courthouse
we're live in Austin tonight I'm Alex
rosier all right thank you Alex so we've
taken a look at the presidential and the
Senate primaries we're gonna have more
results straight ahead on this Super
Tuesday and we'll also get a check on
what else is happening in the world
including an update on the corona virus
two more people have died in the United
States but the World Health Organization
not ready to call it a global pandemic
rain in our forecast I'm talking a lot
of rain and it's moving this direction
I'll have your rainfall timeline and
rainfall totals coming up
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welcome back to our election coverage in
the race for district 32 there are five
Republican candidates trying to unseat
incumbent Democrat Colin Allred and
Genevieve Collins was the favorite
headed into this race and there she sits
on top with 52% of the vote vote
followed by Floyd McClendon jr. he is in
the number two spot at 37% of the vote
in the race for district 24 now this is
a wide open seat incumbent Republican
Kenny Marchand is retiring Beth Van Dyne
was the favorite headed into this race
facing four others and as you can see
she has a is in the lead with 74 percent
of the vote it appears she is headed to
the general election in November and the
Republicans had a heated primary for
district 12 race for Congress there you
see the latest results Kate Granger with
a 59% coming in over Chris Putnam at 41%
Putnam challenging the longtime
incumbent Murray Saavedra is live with
Kate Granger's campaign in Fort Worth
they've got to be happy to see those
numbers absolutely Chris we heard a
victory speech from the congresswoman
just a short time ago after what was
like you said a really tough race now
Putnam a former colleague of City
Councilman really tried to push this
deeply Republican district 12 to say
that he was the more Conservative
candidate he would do more to support
president Trump's agenda but it seems
that did not resonate much with voters
especially because President Trump
endorsed her
when you make a vote and you say I'm
gonna vote for K I've asked for the job
and so we owe to you every day the very
best the very best we can do since this
is likely a Republican seat in November
she will keep her seat and it will be
the 24th year the Granger represents
this district back to you all right
Murray and while the votes come in from
other Super Tuesday states Jason wheeler
and Jason White Lee will be recording a
podcast for your morning drive tomorrow
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podcast team is going to crack open a
beer and true y'all attics fashion start
hashing out the results from tonight's
races they're gonna need it tonight it's
been a long night let's get over to Pete
and the weather well it cooperated
tonight I heard you say crack open a
beer I thought they're hanging out in
the sports department or something I'm
was it sure what was going on but they
may need this podcast for the morning
commute because when you see the rain
that I'm talking about for tomorrow
morning for the morning commute you're
gonna need a few things just to keep
your mind preoccupied off the struggles
on the road right now we're dry in the
dallas-fort Worth area it's off to the
west where we have some rain and it's
it's becoming widespread it will just
fill in from from Abilene out to Midland
San Angelo and love like this huge
cluster of showers and even some
embedded thunderstorms it'll all move
off to the east as we move through
tonight so that's the way it looks at
midnight pretty widespread around
Abilene Waco all of this will just move
in and watch this that's three o'clock
in the morning so showers even a few
thunderstorms during that timeframe
that's the morning commute so we have
rain we'll have wet roads tomorrow
morning as far as any severe weather
goes the severe weather threat tonight I
don't have any in the dallas-fort Worth
area it's all to the south anywhere from
Hamel
Meridian Hillsboro Corsicana Mejia Waco
and then down toward Austin that's the
area that could see some damaging winds
some large hail
but the threat there is pretty low we
have no threat in the dallas-fort Worth
area overnight it's all to the south and
it's especially down in Central Texas so
back to tomorrow morning a very wet
morning commute it's just widespread
rain we'll have waves of rain throughout
the day tomorrow it's not going to rain
non-stop for ten hours but it'll rain
for several hours it'll be dry for a
period of time then more rain than less
rain then more than less so it's just on
and off as we head through the day
tomorrow there's three p.m. watch this
6:00 p.m. the rain is still falling
Dennis we head through the evening we
slowly dry out this is midnight most of
us are dry Southeast Texas still some
leftover rain then we move to sunrise on
Thursday we have a sunny day Thursday
will be a sunny day it'll be a breezy
day and it'll be a pretty nice day
overall so get prepared for that but
tomorrow will be wet look at the rain
we're looking at one to two inches of
rain in the Dallas Fort Worth area
higher amounts down to the south from
Brownwood to Hamilton Stephenville
Meridian we're looking at two to three
some locations could see close to four
inches of rain but in the dallas-fort
Worth area one to two and lower amounts
up along the Red River so with all that
said rainfall coverage as we head
through the overnight about half of a
sea rain at midnight widespread 100%
coverage overnight through the early
morning hours and then the rain coverage
just goes down as I showed you on that
map as the day moves along be prepared
and be prepared for some very wet
weather during the day Wednesday it all
comes to an end Wednesday night so 53
rain develops tonight it'll become
widespread and it will be heavy at times
and then during the day tomorrow the
temperatures don't change a whole lot we
start at 53
we only warm to 56 that's what happens
when you have as much cloud cover and as
much rain around not much in the way of
a temperature spread but remember it's
on and off rain or waves of rain
tomorrow and in between that we'll have
some breaks and during the times when it
rains it could be pretty heavy some
flash flooding may become a concern as
we head through the afternoon
right now there's no flash flood watches
but we'll keep an eye on that keep you
updated remember tonight overnight the
severe weather threat is especially down
in Central Texas not in North Texas
there's the next 10 days send us out on
Thursday Thursday's high is 69 Friday
sunshine at 66 Saturday partly sunny at
65 the time changes Saturday night early
Sunday morning
spring forward set your clocks ahead one
hour daylight saving time begins little
rain late day Sunday a better chance
Sunday night an even better chance on
Monday maybe some severe storms next
Monday too and then after that we're in
the middle 70s with a little bit of rain
the end of next week so keep an eye on
it Greg and the whole crew will be here
tomorrow morning news 8 daybreak starts
at 4:30 Chris Cynthia all right thanks a
lot Pete you know you got a feel for the
folks in Tennessee right now we're
seeing devastation in parts of Music
City tornadoes whipping across Tennessee
and shredding buildings when we come
back a look at the day's news
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sure investors the Dow dropped almost
800 points by the closing bell and the
damage is unbelievable cleanup began
today near Nashville Tennessee after a
tornado outbreak this storm killed at
least 25 people and tonight polls in
Tennessee stayed open three hours later
so those affected could vote shorter
school days are coming to DeSoto ISD but
sorry kids not every day starting next
fall students will have a half day on
the first and third Wednesdays of each
month so teachers can participate in
professional development and that's your
nightly snapshot now respondus
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last time before we head out this
evening here's where we stand with the
Democratic presidential race in Texas
tonight Bernie Sanders leading by one
point now Joe Biden right behind him
nipping at his heels Mike Bloomberg
behind him as it stands now all three of
them would get delegates because they're
all above that 15% mark but still a lot
of the vote to be counted Harris County
where Houston is 35% of the precincts
are in Dallas County only four percent
of precincts reporting austin travis
county only one percent and then san
antonio 0% of the precincts reporting
and in all these little counties you see
in gray nothing has been reported and I
know the turnout was huge here
especially down in the valley so it's
going to be a long night counting these
votes here in Texas so many people
turned out that it just pushed
everything behind so I'm gonna be back
for daybreak this is not a job going we
might not even be going anywhere
starting up at 5:00 a.m. and be here
with daybreak it actually starts at 4:30
I'm gonna get here 30 minutes after that
and hopefully by then they will be done
counting maybe don't point at me for
daybreak also between now and then
though we're gonna step across to
another studio put a podcast together
with our panel of experts to kind of
break all this down so we'll have that
for your morning drive tomorrow morning
you make that rain on the way that drive
might be a little longer than normal so
night take your time on the podcast the
night is young and we will bring you all
the results on news 8 day breaking
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