Texas Comptroller Don Huffines said in a video shared widely on X that early voting "is not in our favor." Early voting in the Nov. 3 election was wrapping up. Huffines compared himself to William Barret Travis's plea for help from the Alamo and said, "Right now, it is not going well."
In a post with the video, Huffines wrote that Democrats are out-voting Republicans in early voting for the first time. He cited a "nearly 600,000-vote swing against us since the last midterm" and said 1.6 million Republican primary voters had not yet cast a ballot. He said those numbers are based on early voters' past primary participation. Texas does not register voters by party, so claims about which party leads in early voting are estimates. The Maverick Times could not independently verify Huffines's figures.
According to the Texas Secretary of State, 6,228,664 Texans had voted through Wednesday, Oct. 28. That included 5,989,555 in person and 239,109 by mail. The total was about 32.7% of the state's 19,041,684 registered voters, with two more days of early voting still to be counted.
Huffines, a Republican and former state senator from Dallas, was appointed comptroller by Gov. Greg Abbott and sworn in Aug. 1. He urged every Republican to vote, even those unhappy with a candidate. The post had drawn more than 420,000 views by early Friday.