Eight candidates will appear on the Texas Democratic presidential primary ballot on March 5, 2024. Also, eight will appear on the Republican presidential primary ballot. See the list here. One must enter several choices to use the link.
Eight candidates will appear on the Texas Democratic presidential primary ballot on March 5, 2024. Also, eight will appear on the Republican presidential primary ballot. See the list here. One must enter several choices to use the link.
Filing is with the party chair. They then post the information on the SOS website (they have a password).
If one wanted to know why a candidate filing was rejected they would have to contact the party. They are public records.
Candidacies are subject to challenge. One of the Democrats is not a natural born citizen.
Get ’em outta here. Get ’em out.
Fun Texas facts:
-In their 2022 US House elections, the typical primary had only 1 democrat or 3 republicans running, although the biggest primary had 11!
-Texas primaries sometimes have runoff elections. When no one gets a majority, the top two advance. 17% of primaries for US House had a runoff in 2022.
-Only 45% of districts had a third-party or independent candidate on the 2022 US House ballot.
[calculated from Ballotpedia info]
(17% of real and canceled primaries… Democrats did not run in some of the districts)
Just making a comparison with Presidential Primaries.
Texas “primaries” always have runoffs. Some of those are “primary runoffs” which still can’t elect anyone to office, only advance them to the election (the event which can actually elect someone). They are only called primaries due to the misconception that they are elections at all.
Either a Texas primary candidate advances to the election, or to the primary runoff,the winner of which advances to the election. But in no case can a primary candidate advance directly to office without an election. These events should really be called something else, not primaries or runoffs, to clear up the confusion .
We really should stop playing into the propaganda of calling them primaries. Primaries is an abbreviation for primary elections. They’re not elections at all through, just qualifying events. They should be renamed.
OK how about “qualifiers” or “party qualifiers”? “Party knock-outs”? I’m not a big sports person.
For example: I predict John Doe will knock out his opponents in the GOP qualifiers in just one round.
But Presidential qualifiers work a little different, right? More than one candidate can get “Delegate Points”.
Qualifiers sounds more accurate than elections to describe what takes place at “Primaries”. In the Olympics I think they’re called qualifying rounds or something like that? They’re not called Olympic competitions, much less games, to my knowledge. What other analogous events exist in various fields of competition and what sort of terminology is used?
@BLT,
First round.
It’s not a first round. It’s a qualifying meet, or prequalification event, prequel, qualifications, etc
@BLT,
Who do you believe is confused by calling these events primary elections? This terminology has been used in Texas statute since 1905.
Anyone who thinks it’s an actual election. They were actual elections in all but formality in Texas for decades after 1905, that is, the primary winner could start decorating the office effectively. Yet, it’s been decades since that had been true.
@BLT,
Imagine three Texas voters, call them Barbara Collete Norris (Bacon for short), Letta S., and Tom.
Bacon thinks it is an election. Letta thinks it is not. Tom doesn’t know and doesn’t care.
How does it matter when they vote?
It doesn’t. It matters only when the concept of what happens that day and whether or how it ought to be done differently comes up.