Live Results: Texas governor midterm election

PBS NewsHour, CBS News and NBC News report on Tuesday's 2026 midterms, which will determine who controls Congress and the fate of President Donald Trump's agenda. CBS News notes that every House seat is up, along with 35 Senate races, and that governors are being chosen in 36 states.

PBS NewsHour focuses on Texas, a test of Republican strength. Democratic state Rep. James Talarico is challenging Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, who won the nomination over Sen. John Cornyn after a late Trump endorsement. By mid-October, Talarico had raised more than $146.3 million to Paxton's $22.3 million, but outside spending gives Paxton the edge overall. PBS NewsHour also calls the governor's race between Gov. Greg Abbott and Gina Hinojosa unusually tight.

NBC News describes its exit polling, conducted by SSRS for a consortium of news organizations and drawing over 75,000 voters nationally, about 4,000 of them in Texas. It will publish no results before 5 p.m. ET. CBS News adds that the first polls close at 7 p.m. ET. Alaska, which uses ranked-choice voting, closes last at 1 a.m. ET, and CBS News says its complete tally could take until Nov. 18.

Summarized by PolitiKool from PBS NewsHour, CBS News and NBC News’s reporting. Read the full story at PBS NewsHour → Also at CBS News → Also at NBC News →