Multiple Texas GOP Incumbents Lose Primaries As Voters Punish Opponents Of School Choice

Multiple Republican lawmakers in Texas lost their primaries after a push to force out school choice opponents from the state legislature.

Texas Republican primaries on Tuesday saw nine incumbents defeated and eight forced into runoffs, according to The Texas Newsroom. Eleven other incumbents chose not to run for re-election.

Of those opposed to school choice and challenged by the group American Federation for Children (AFC) Victory Fund, six incumbents lost their elections and four more were “forced to runoffs,” school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis wrote on Twitter.

In November 2023, the Texas House of Representatives voted to remove the school choice proposal from its education bill, according to the legislature’s website. Twenty-one Republicans joined the Democrats to remove the proposal from the bill, it noted.