President Donald J. Trump disembarks Air Force One at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, where he was greeted by Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
With no serious competition in the GOP primary race held in Texas on Super Tuesday, it wasn’t as though Republicans needed to come out to vote for the President en masse. But they did anyway. Over 1.8 million people voted for the President, more than the top four Democrats combined. Breitbart’s Charlie Spiering reports:
Trump received 1,871,515 total votes in the Texas Republican primary on Tuesday, with 99.5 percent of the vote reporting.
That’s more than the top four remaining Democrats combined, as currently former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, and Elizabeth Warren have earned a total of 1.7 million votes in Texas, with 91.3 percent of the vote reporting, although the Democrat votes are still being counted.
Trump received the most votes ever for an incumbent president running in Texas.
Fifteen years ago, 635,948 Republican Texans voted for then-President George W. Bush in the 2004 Republican primary. In 2012, 520,410 Democrats voted for then-President Barack Obama in their primary.
Texan Republicans did have a Senate primary in the state in 2020, but Sen. John Cornyn was the easy winner with 74 percent of the vote.
