Andrew Schneider | Houston Public Media

Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Colin Allred attacked each other’s records on issues ranging from the economy to civil rights. Neither was entirely accurate in their charges.

Jackson Lee was in the midst of running for her 16th term when she announced in June she had pancreatic cancer.

Texas State University was originally scheduled to host Texas’ first presidential debate on September 16, before President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump cut the Commission on Presidential Debates out of the process.

Most of the arguments focused on whether the barrier, installed at Gov. Greg Abbott’s order last summer, violates a 19th century federal law prohibiting obstructions to navigable waterways without congressional approval. Border security and immigration played only minor roles in the legal discussions.

Phelan placed a close second behind Covey, a former Orange County Republican Party chairman, in the first round of the primary for East Texas’ House District 21 in March.