Total voter turnout in Texas is currently tracking with 2018 levels.
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Bannon`s War RoomOct 28, 2026
Sources from the days around the October 28 post show Texas turnout running essentially even with 2018: slightly behind on the first week of early voting (23.4% vs 24.3%), then surpassing 2018 levels by October 31 and November 2.
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… Uhm, obviously, we would love to see a bigger pickup, but we did definitely see kind of a turn happen over the last couple of days, uh, with Republican primary voters starting to show out and actually outpace their Democrat counterparts. Uhm, we're still tracking with about 2018, but we have a bit of an edge on 2018 now in terms of total turnout, so that is are the President Trump went to Corpus Christi strategically for South Texas and Rio Grande Valley. He went to Lubbock for West Texas. …
Bannon`s War Room · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Texas Tribune reporting from October 27 says turnout in the first seven days of early voting (23.4% of registered voters) was slightly behind 2018's 24.3%, which is close to tracking with 2018.[1][2]
Supports. Axios on October 31 reports in-person early voting surpassed 2018 levels in four of Texas's five largest counties, with 38.9% of registered voters voting including mail ballots.[3]
Supports. KRGV on November 2 reports more than 7.7 million Texans voted early, a 40.5% turnout rate that surpasses the 2018 midterm high-water mark, though it notes the data is preliminary and incomplete.[4]
Context. The extracted claim omits the post's statement that turnout had 'a bit of an edge' on 2018; the post's own wording was tracking with 2018 but slightly ahead, and later data shows turnout ahead of 2018.
Sources
4 sources: 4 not rated
- 1In first week of early voting, 4.5 million Texans cast a ballottexastribune.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 2Texas early voting rate is slightly behind 2018, when Beto O'Rourke ...click2houston.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Texans surge to polls during early voting - Axiosaxios.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4More than 7.7 million Texans voted early in 2026 election ...krgv.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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