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“Jon Rosenthal has won the race for Texas railroad commissioner, NBC News projects, defeating Republican Bo French, who faced widespread backlash in his own party and beyond for anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and antisemitic comments.”

“Democrat Jon Rosenthal won the Texas Railroad Commissioner race, CBS News projects, defeating Republican Bo French after the GOP candidate refused to reconsider his racist, anti-Muslim and antisemitic comments.”

“Democrats also won races for comptroller, land commissioner, agriculture commissioner and railroad commissioner -- key offices that oversee the state budget, its public lands, its farm economy and its oil and gas industry.”

“Democrats won the Texas attorney general’s office, the lieutenant governorship, and the state House Texas’ state comptroller, agriculture commissioner, and land commissioner will be Democrats.”

“Further down the ballot, in a closely watched race for the oil and gas regulating railroad commissioner, Democrat Jon Rosenthal looked poised to defeat Republican Bo French, who was widely condemned for a racist social media post about University of Texas…”

“Democrat Gina Hinojosa shattered another decades-long streak of Republican victories by beating out incumbent Greg Abbott in Texas’ gubernatorial race, becoming the state’s first-ever Latina governor and the first Democrat elected to the post since the 1990s.”

“Republicans lead every other statewide race in the University of Houston's Hobby School poll, from governor down to railroad commissioner.”

“WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2026 midterm election is one of the biggest tests of Republican dominance in Texas — and Democrats’ best shot in decades at winning a key U.S.”

“The campaign for railroad commissioner does not really have much to do with data centers, actually, but the Democrat got so many questions about them he put out a position anyway.”