AUSTIN – Republicans smashed their way to their biggest modern-day majority in the Texas House on Tuesday and are now very likely to draw claret-red political maps and deeply cut education and social programs next year. The big uncertainty after the GOP in one night rolled back Democratic gains of the last three election cycles was whether Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, could withstand an infusion of new conservatives, despite his helpfulness to embattled Republican incumbents. Republicans' 19-12 edge in the Senate remained unchanged.
Garrett on the huge Republican victory: http://dallasne.ws/bLT233
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