Good evening. I'm Laura Coates on this busy election night where there is some major drama in the Democratic Senate primary in Texas.

Right now, Texas State Rep. James Talrico is leading Congresswoman Jasmine Crocket in the race to be the Democratic nominee for Senate. Both are trying to do what no Democrat

has done in a generation, win a statewide race in Texas, which has not happened since 1994. But this primary

just got more complicated because Texas Supreme Court has blocked an earlier ruling that allowed

extended voting hours in Dallas County.

The court said any votes that came in after the original closing time should not be counted tonight while the case is litigated.

They should be separated.

Moments ago, Crockett spoke saying she thinks it's unlikely that the winner will even be known tonight.

On the Republican side, incumbent Senator John Cornyn will be headed to a bruising runoff

against Attorney General Ken Paxton after neither candidate cleared 50% plus one of the vote.

Our reporters and analysts are here to cover it all tonight.

And I want to start with CNN's John King,

who is at The Magic Wall. John, tell me, how important is the vote count out of Dallas County

for that Taurico Crockett race? Well, obviously, it is her home base and every vote counts.

And on this first primary night of 202626 we certainly want to start by making sure every

vote is counted so but let's look at it the question is though laura we'll see what happens in

the courts and we'll see which ballots they count hopefully they count them all if people were in

line and thought they could vote the question is it enough isn't enough because you look right

now at the race the state representative as you mentioned james telarico, leading there 52 to 47. So he's got a

five-point lead or 70, just shy of 75,000 votes at the moment with about 63% of the vote counted.

Now, how much is out in Dallas County? It's a good question. If they're going to have to have

litigation now about, you know, are all ballots counted or are some ballots because of the

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