KUTV in Salt Lake City, which is a CBS affiliate, seems to be the first general news outlet to have carried a story on the Libertarian Party’s response to the State of the Union Address. See here.

On May 1, Texas held a special election to fill the vacancy in the Sixth District. Texas special elections do not have party nominees. Instead, all candidates file by paying a filing fee and all appear on the same ballot. There were eleven Republicans, ten Democrats, one Libertarian, and one independent. If no one gets 50%, there is a runoff.

Preliminary returns show that the eleven Republicans polled a total of 48,554 votes; the ten Democrats polled 29,204; the independent received 351; the Libertarian received 265. The percentages are: Republican 61.95%; Democrats 37.26%; independent .45%; Libertarian .34%.

No one received a majority. Two Republicans, Susan Wright and Jake Ellzey, placed first and second, so they will be in the runoff.

When this district voted in November 2020, the percentages had been: Republican 52.80%; Democratic 43.98%; Libertarian 3.22%. Here are the unofficial results for all the 23 candidates.

The Hill has this commentary by J. T. Young, a former executive branch officer under the George W. Bush presidency. Young says if the voters who voted for Jo Jorgensen had voted for Donald Trump in 2020, Trump would have been re-elected.

Of course, these analyses are not fully meaningful, because no one knows how voters who vote for third party candidates would have voted if that third party had not entered a nominee.