Houston Chronicle by Taylor Goldenstein Feb. 29, 2020
With a chance to play a decisive role in the Democratic presidential primary, Texans in the state’s largest counties swarmed to the polls for early voting in numbers that eclipsed a sky-high showing in 2016 for the party.
Yet with President Donald Trump all but certain to win the GOP primary at the top of the ballot, voters in the state still cast even more early votes in the Republican primary than the Democratic contest, 1,070,278 to 954,583.
The nearly 7 percent turnout on the Democratic side for the 15 counties with the most registered voters was above the 5 percent racked up after early voting in the 2016 presidential primary.
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