Democrats had record turnout in Texas’ Senate primary. Can they flip the seat?

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  And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

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  And it's Friday, so we wanted to wrap up another week in Washington and beyond.

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  And we're going to start with the beyond in Texas specifically,

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  which is coming into focus after voting last week in primary elections.

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  And Domenico,

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  you have been crunching some really interesting numbers from the Texas primary on turnout.

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  What can you tell us?

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  Yeah, Democrats set a turnout record in their primary.

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  not just for Democratic statewide primaries, but for any statewide primary, including Republicans.

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  And we know Republicans have dominated in the state for a long time.

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  More than 2.3 million votes were cast in the primary that pitted State Representative James Tallarico against Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.

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