Got a little bit of breaking news out of Texas as we continue to watch the Democratic U.S. Senate primary there.

As you see, this is what we've got right now.

45% of the vote in.

James Tolerico leading Jasmine Crockett right now, 53 to roughly 46%.

But again, less than half the vote in.

And one of the things we've been watching closely all night since we first sat down at this

desk is the question of Dallas County.

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett represents a district in Dallas.

And Dallas County has had problems with the administration of their election today.

We've been explaining that over the course of the night.

I'm going to go right now to Evan Smith, who's the host of Overheard with Evan Smith on Austin PBS.

He's a veteran observer of Texas politics.

He's got 30 years' experience doing that.

And Evan, I'd like you to explain to us again what had happened earlier today in Dallas County,

why things have been chaotic there. And now

this new reporting about a judge's order about the extension of voting there. Right. So as we

talked about earlier, Rachel, the Republican Party in Dallas County decided they did not want to

have countywide elections. They wanted to make people go to their assigned polling place locally. And if the Republicans say you can't have countywide, then the

Democrats can't have countywide. So Democratic voters showed up thinking they were going to be able

to vote at the places around the county they had voted. And they were turned away. And there was a big

push to try to extend voting in Dallas County as a result of that to give those people an opportunity to vote after all.

A Dallas judge ordered the polls open until nine.

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