‘A perfectly normal 2 million NEW votes?’ Questions mount over Texas election data as GOP demands answers
By The Daily Signal
Election observers have noted some highly unusual facts about this year’s midterm results
Texas’ 2026 election results are drawing scrutiny over high turnout and voting patterns in major counties, with residents and former candidates questioning the significant increases in Democrat vote totals.
Gina Hinojosa received 1.7 million more votes than Beto O’Rourke in 2022; James Talarico got nearly as many votes as President Donald Trump won in 2024.
Independent journalist Kyle Becker and others cited reported changes and discrepancies in published election figures while arguing that Texas voters deserve greater transparency.
After Democrats took hold of Texas on Election Day, many Texans are raising questions of whether the election was fair and if fraud took place.
Numerous irregularities in Texas’ voter totals are causing many across the state to wonder if illegal votes were cast in the Texas election.
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Election observers have noted some highly unusual facts about this year’s midterm results in Texas. First, Gina Hinojosa, the state’s new governor-elect, received a whopping 1.7 million more votes than Democrat gubernatorial candidates Beto O’Rourke in 2022 and Lupe Valdez did in 2018. James Talarico, the state’s new Democrat senator-elect, received nearly as many votes as President Donald Trump did in 2024.
In 2018, Gov. Greg Abbott received 4.6 million votes, while his Democrat challenger, Valdez, received 3.5 million. In 2022, Abbott received 4.4 million, while O’Rourke won 3.5 million. However, in 2026, it appears that Democrats gained 1.7 million votes, as Abbott received nearly the same number of votes, 4.5 million, while Hinojosa received 5.2 million.
Additionally, in the U.S. Senate race, Talarico received 5.45 million votes, compared to Republican Ken Paxton’s 4.25 million. Trump received a total of 6.39 million votes from Texas during the 2024 presidential race, and Talarico was only 940,000 short of that entire number during a midterm election—when voters are less likely to turn out.
Former Texas state Senate candidate Joseph Trahan is among those pointing out the odd circumstances of the midterm election, sharing that 2 million new votes “only came from 5 counties.”
“Mayes Middleton was ahead by 647,903 votes in the 249 of the 254 Texas counties. Then BOOM…2 Million NEW VOTERS showed up Democrat Nathan Johnson in Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Travis & Bexar counties that had NEVER voted before,” Trahan wrote on X, citing unofficial secretary of state numbers.
Trahan then broke down the statewide numbers in the Texas attorney general race, where Republican Mayes Middleton received 4.5 million votes, and Democrat Nathan Johnson received 5.1 million.
In five counties—Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Travis, and Bexar—Johnson received 2.6 million, whereas Middleton received 1.36 million.
Breaking down the numbers further, Trahan explained that if one subtracts the numbers from the five counties from those in the remaining counties, Middleton had 3.14 million votes, whereas Johnson had 2.49 million, giving Middleton a lead of 647,903 votes in the other 249 counties.
“A perfectly normal 2 Million NEW votes? MORE than a presidential election? Explain this to me,” Trahan said in his X post.
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