Texas Early Voting Tops 6M in Tight Talarico-Paxton Senate Race

More than 6.3 million Texans had voted early heading into Friday, the last day of early voting, in a key battleground Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton as polls still show it as a toss-up.

That figure is a 50 percent increase from the 4.2 million Texans who had voted at the same point in 2022, according to a Newsweek analysis of voting data. Nationwide, more than 43 million Americans had voted early in person or by mail, nearly 10 million more than four years ago...