Women running for Congress surged to big wins and Democrats smashed recent turnout levels in Texas’s first-in-the-nation 2018 primary elections.
The results left Republicans on Wednesday with a potential glimpse of what might be to come in the first mid-terms under President Donald Trump.
Equally striking was the showing by women on the ballot. Of the nearly 50 women running for Congress in Texas, more than half won their primaries outright or advanced to May run-offs.
