Texas Senate
The Senate Chamber, located in the east wing of the Capitol, is the setting for negotiation, debate and legislative action by 31 senators. As established by the Texas Constitution, a senator must be at least 26 years of age, a citizen of Texas five years prior to election, and a resident of the district from which elected one year prior to election. Each senator serves a four-year term— one-half of the Senate membership is elected every two years. As presiding officer of the Senate, the lieutenant governor is officially called the President of the Senate. The lieutenant governor is elected by a statewide popular vote to serve a four-year term of office. The lieutenant governor is not a member of the Senate, and votes only in case of a tie. The lieutenant governor appoints all chairs and members of Senate committees, and refers all bills to committee. The lieutenant governor also schedules most bills for consideration on the Senate floor. Bills which are local or uncontested are scheduled by the Senate Administration Committee. The Senate holds the power of advice and consent on gubernatorial appointments to state boards and commissions. Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/assets/pdf/2007_Citizen_Handbook.pdfwww.senate.state.tx.us
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Oct 27, 2026
Ross PattersonHOST
What do we got here?
Anthony HollowayPANELIST
So on the Texas Senate, Tallarico is at 64%.
Anthony HollowayPANELIST
Okay.
Anthony HollowayPANELIST
Hasn't really changed since last time we talked.
Dinesh D'SouzaHOST
Guys, I'm delighted to welcome to the show Dan Patrick, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas.
Dinesh D'SouzaHOST
He's had an illustrious career as a radio and TV host, and then he served in the Texas Senate.
Dinesh D'SouzaHOST
He is now, well, pretty much running the state of Texas, and he's here to talk to me about...
Dinesh D'SouzaHOST
The midterms.
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Dan PatrickGUEST
But I will say in my 20 years of experience now, Mark, is that I mean, I keep saying Mark.
Dan PatrickGUEST
Sorry, Dinesh, I just got off another interview with Mark.
Dan PatrickGUEST
So, Dinesh, I would say that most people I serve with, and I could surely say this about the Texas Senate, these are hardworking people that just, they're workhorses, and they're not focused on themselves.
Dan PatrickGUEST
You know, people probably don't know this, Dinesh, but everyone in the Texas Senate and Texas House, myself included, we make $600 a month, $7,200 a year.
Mark DavisHOST
I want a very specific closed circuit.
Mark DavisHOST
For those of you in in in Tarrant County, specifically Senate District nine.
Mark DavisHOST
It's about half of Fort Worth, Keller, Southlake, you know, obviously parts of Westlake, Hurst and North Richland Hills, Watauga, Halton City, Richland Hills, Hazlitt, Saginaw, Blue Mount.
Mark DavisHOST
If this, if this, if the 820, 183, you know, the corridor there, if this is you.
Mark DavisHOST
I very specifically need to get you out today and do that whole find 10 people thing because we cannot, I mean, can not have Taylor Ramette, a Democrat, win Senate District 9, which has been long held by Kelly Hancock and now needs to be held by Lee Wamsgans.
Mark DavisHOST
And everybody, and I'll just flat tell you, there is a growing demand from early voting numbers to the notion that, uh, that, that, that Tarrant is turning deeper purple, uh, Colin Allred, um, uh, won this district, uh, you know, by,
Brandon GillSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
you
Mark DavisHOST
State Rep Nate Schatzlein dropped his own bid and endorsed her.
Jerry QuijanoHOST
Today, the Texas newsroom's Blaise Ganey traces the Republican incumbent's rise and looks at what Patrick says he would do with another four years in the office.
Blaise GaineyCORRESPONDENT
Long before he was presiding over the Texas Senate, Dan Patrick was a broadcaster.
Blaise GaineyCORRESPONDENT
That brought him to Houston in 1979 when he became a sportscaster at the local CBS affiliate KHOU.
Blaise GaineyCORRESPONDENT
Here he is reporting from the Astro Dome.
Joshua FechterGUEST
I couldn't get... a straight answer on that, or at least an answer that didn't confuse me.
Joshua FechterGUEST
When I spoke to State Senator Paul Betancourt, who's kind of the chief sort of like tax cut hawk in the Texas Senate, who has authored the expansions of the Homestead exemption in recent years, he told me basically that money doesn't exist until you claim it.
Joshua FechterGUEST
It's hard not to think that it's just sitting leftover in an account somewhere.
Joshua FechterGUEST
So this is money that's being left on the table.
Kate CagleHOST
But a lot of us are really worried about where all of this is going.
Mike BoninHOST
Well, I also suspect that California will be less of the focus of all of this voter fraud stuff from Trump and MAGA just because there's so many other races they're going to be focused on, right? They're going to be focused on the Texas Senate race.
Mike BoninHOST
They're going to be focused on the Michigan Senate race.
Mike BoninHOST
Right.
Marco GeraceHOST
Who would actually do this? I guess Neil Bush would.
Marco GeraceHOST
He revealed last week that he crossed party lines to vote for the Democratic James Tallarico in the Texas Senate race while landing in a stinging rebuke of President Trump's back candidate Ken Paxton.
Marco GeraceHOST
Yeah, what are you going to get for that, by the way? What are you going to get with the James Tallarico, folks? You know, I was looking at something earlier online, and it was this Texas guy being mailed to households for children.
Marco GeraceHOST
And it was this LGBTQ, XYZ, WTUV, like, pamphlet or booklet.
Dan PatrickGUEST
The Democrat Party in Washington, D.C., will be running it.
Dan PatrickGUEST
Vicki Goodwin, my opponent, she has – basically no skill set whatsoever after seven years in the House of being able to run the Texas Senate.
Dan PatrickGUEST
I don't think she's passed a major bill in her seven years there.
Dan PatrickGUEST
And then James Tallarico, if he gets elected, he'll cancel out Ted Cruz's vote for the next six years.
Dave ScarletHOST
Yes, they're up to more.
Dave ScarletHOST
All right, as I said earlier, just in, Polly Mark, Neil Bush, brother of former President George W. Bush, officially endorses Democrat James Talrico in the Texas Senate race.
Dave ScarletHOST
Unbelievable.
Dave ScarletHOST
All right, Pontius Pilate, I know there's some Catholics that are not happy with this, but this has nothing to do with the Catholics.
Roger SternHOST
Trump will travel to Mississippi in the coming days where he will rally behind Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who looks to hold on to her seat.
Roger SternHOST
A new Fox poll shows the Texas Senate race is a dead heat, though other more recent polls have the Democrats slightly leading.
Roger SternHOST
Here's Fox's Natalie Chuck with details.
Natalie ChuckCORRESPONDENT
It's still up in the air whether a historic flip will unfold in Texas, where a Democrat has not won a statewide race in more than 30 years.
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