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MSNBC anchor Brian Williams apologized on behalf of his network after it broadcast a vulgarity from Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke. "I'm so f—-ing proud of you guys," O'Rourke said during his concession speech on Tuesday night after losing his election to Ted Cruz. The curse word was not censored on MSNBC. Sorry for the F-bomb," Williams said after the remark. "We have no control of what's in the concession speeches." Fox News and CNN were not broadcasting O'Rourke's concession speech.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A former Navy SEAL was elected Tuesday night to become Texas' youngest congressional representative. Dan Crenshaw will replace outgoing Republican Rep. Ted Poe in U.S. House District 2. Crenshaw, 34, was a first-time political candidate who learned some political lessons early on after being forced into a runoff, finishing second by just 155 votes. The Republican went on to win the nomination to face off with Democratic challenger Todd Litton for the open seat. A second dose of political reality set in over the weekend when his war injury became the butt of a joke on...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- After a hard-fought race, Democratic candidate Lizzie Fletcher sent nine-time Republican incumbent Rep. John Culberson into retirement on Tuesday night. Fletcher hoped to turn Texas' Congressional District 7 blue for the first time in 18 years with a message on affordable health care. The native Houstonian and law firm partner is the co-founder of a Planned Parenthood young leaders' group, and also sits on the board of multiple nonprofits. She said before Tuesday's vote that she has fought hard for Houstonians, both Democrats and Republicans, in her work. Fletcher raised more than $5 million, which doubled...

Allred leads 52 to 47 in Dallas County Sessions leads in smaller Collin County This one will be close about 56% of precincts reporting in Dallas county

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas outperformed pro-abortion Democratic challenger Rep. Beto O’Rourke and won a Senate victory despite O’Rourke raking in unprecedented campaign contributions and a love-affair from the mainstream media. The abortion activist had raised nearly $40 million in the third quarter of 2018, smashing the all-time record for most raised in one quarter, previously set at $22 million. Comparatively, Cruz raised roughly $12 over the same period. After O’Rourke revealed he wouldn’t be sharing any of the war chest he amassed with the other Democrats in tight races, Cruz took a jestful shot at the congressman, saying...

Republican Ted Cruz of Texas is projected to win re-election to a second term in the U.S. Senate, emerging victorious from the toughest political fight of his career, according to NBC News.

Liberal Hollywood actor Jim Carrey and GOP Texas Senator Ted Cruz engaged in a contentious back-and-forth on Twitter Monday, just hours before voters in the state head to polling stations to help determine Cruz’s fate in the Senate. Cruz is holding a slight lead in his race against Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke in the Lone Star State, according to the recent polls. So Carrey, a vocal liberal who recently urged Americans to ‘stop apologizing’ and ‘say yes to socialism,' got into the fray by tweeting his support for the Democrat. “Go Beto! Go Democrats! Vote like there’s no tomorrow,” the...

Orourke 51 Cruz 49 with about 2% reporting

Allred -Democrat 54% Sessions - Republican 45% [Dallas county] Allred -Democrat 56% Sessions - Republican 42% [Collin county]

The U.S. Border Patrol cancelled a scheduled "crowd control" exercise Tuesday at a port of entry in a Hispanic neighborhood of El Paso, Texas, amid concerns over the drill's timing on Election Day. The exercise was scheduled as part of a "mobile field force demonstration" ahead of the potential arrival of Central American migrant "caravans." But the timing and relative proximity to polling stations drew the ire of civil rights activists and Democrats, who accused the Border Patrol of voter intimidation. A Border Patrol representative told The Hill that the exercise had been postponed "out of an abundance of caution...

With Veterans Day around the corner and 71 percent of VA medical centers recently demonstrating increases in quality in the past year, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2018’s Best & Worst Places for Veterans to Live as well as accompanying videos. The report compares the 100 largest U.S. cities across 18 key metrics, ranging from share of military skill-related jobs to housing affordability to availability of VA health facilities. Best Cities for Veterans 1. Austin, TX 2. Scottsdale, AZ 3. Colorado Springs, CO 4. Raleigh, NC 5. Gilbert, AZ 6. Plano, TX 7. Virginia Beach, VA...

The Republican Jewish Coalition is calling for the resignation of seven Democratic members of Congress whom it claims are "connected" to controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The group describes him as a "known anti-Semite." The lobbying group on Tuesday called for the following lawmakers to step down: Reps. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.; Barbara Lee, D-Calif.; Maxine Waters, D-Calif.; Danny Davis, D-Ill.; Andre Carson, D-Ind.; Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.; and Al Green, D-Texas.

Volunteers used every bit of the daylight Monday to knock on doors before polls open in the morning. In Collin County, the GOP set a 72-hour goal of knocking on 13,401 doors, with close to 10,000 of that total on Monday alone. It kept a phone on the ear of Gabriela Perdichizzi all day. "We're covering all corners of the county," Perdichizzi said. "We got people walking in McKinney, people in Plano, Allen and Frisco." One day after state representative Jeff Leach (R-Plano) put out a call for block walkers during a Ted Cruz rally in Fairview, areas across the...

Awww how adorable, Beto O’Rourke voted and so did his wife … wait, and his kids?

Larry Schweikart: Hearing two busses near TX border stopped with "Beto" signs, full of illegals, each had $100 and were headed to the polls.

The government agency that oversees border patrol is planning an Election Day "crowd control exercise" today in El Paso, Texas, near a Hispanic neighborhood with about 100 residents. The exercise is being conducted in the hometown of Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic Senate candidate who's running a tight race against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. The Customs and Border Protection agency has scheduled the exercises at 10 a.m. Mountain Time, according to a statement. The exercise, in El Paso's oldest neighborhood, is being called a "mobile field force demonstration." Media were invited to attend the event. The neighborhood is near an area...

For 40 years, the Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet saw action in combat zones in Africa and the Middle East as a staple of the French military. Now, more than 60 of the jets will find a home near Fort Worth where they’ll be taking on a new kind of mission as part of a multibillion-dollar opportunity for Alliance Airport’s newest tenant. Airborne Tactical Advantage Co., also known as ATAC, broke ground last month on a 75,000-square-foot hangar due to open next summer that will house maintenance and pilot-training functions. Mechanics there recently showed off two refurbished jets, the first...

O'Rourke, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, crashed his car in 1998 and was eventually arrested for driving while intoxicated. The Texas Democrat has long acknowledged what he describes as a "serious mistake" for his DWI arrest. The Houston Chronicle, however, reported new details this year on the severity of the accident. A police report from the incident revealed a witness stated O'Rourke attempted to leave the scene after he crashed his vehicle.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin blasted "Saturday Night Live" creator and producer Lorne Michaels after a comic on the show made fun of a Texas GOP congressional candidate who lost an eye serving in Afghanistan.Comedian Pete Davidson joked about retired Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw's eye patch, saying he looks like a pirate in a pornographic film.Davidson, 24, giggled afterwards, saying, "Sorry. I know he lost his eye in war, or whatever." Read Full Article While Crenshaw said Monday on "Fox & Friends" that he would not demand an apology from Davidson or the show, Palin fired back at Michaels on...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) — People in one north Fort Worth neighborhood woke up Thursday morning to several signs with a head-scratching message on them. The signs were posted up and down Waverly Lane on lamp posts and other pieces of public property and read “It’s okay to be white.” The origin of the signs and the intended meaning of the words are a mystery, but some neighbors were quick to react and took them down because some perceived them to be discriminatory. At this point, no one knows if the signs were meant as a prank or something more serious....