M.J. Hegar, the former Air Force pilot from the Austin suburb of Round Rock, narrowly defeated Royce West, the Dallas state senator, in the Democratic runoff to face Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn this fall. The Associated Press called the race shortly before midnight. Hegar held a 4-percentage-point lead, a narrower margin than in her primary matchup with West in March, but it held through the night Tuesday. In the hardest-fought North Texas congressional race, Candace Valenzuela declared victory late Tuesday night with 60% of the vote. Valenzuela, a member of the Carrollton-Farmers...…M.J. Hegar, the former Air Force pilot from the Austin suburb of Round Rock, narrowly defeated Royce West, the Dallas state senator, in the Democratic runoff to face Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn this fall. The Associated Press called the race shortly before midnight. Hegar held a 4-percentage-point lead, a narrower margin than in her primary matchup with West in March, but it held through the night Tuesday. In the hardest-fought North Texas congressional race, Candace Valenzuela declared victory late Tuesday night with 60% of the vote. Valenzuela, a member of the Carrollton-Farmers...WW…

© 2022 KERA NewsNews for North TexasPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsKERA NewsFormer President George W. Bush spoke out Tuesday for the first time about the police violence and demonstrations that have convulsed a country already reeling in the midst of a pandemic.The former president and his wife, Laura, who live in Dallas, called for an end to "systemic racism" in a issued through the Bush Presidential Center: "Laura and I are anguished by the brutal suffocation of George Floyd and disturbed by the injustice and fear that suffocate our country. Yet we have resisted the...…© 2022 KERA NewsNews for North TexasPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsKERA NewsFormer President George W. Bush spoke out Tuesday for the first time about the police violence and demonstrations that have convulsed a country already reeling in the midst of a pandemic.The former president and his wife, Laura, who live in Dallas, called for an end to "systemic racism" in a issued through the Bush Presidential Center: "Laura and I are anguished by the brutal suffocation of George Floyd and disturbed by the injustice and fear that suffocate our country. Yet we have resisted the...WW…