Two numbers from Texas that don’t pass the smell test:

Gina Hinojosa just got 5.23 million votes for governor. That’s more than any gubernatorial candidate in modern Texas history - higher than Abbott’s 4.66M peak in 2018 and 1.68M more than Beto got in 2022.

James Talarico got 5.45 million for Senate. That’s only about 940k short of Trump’s entire 2024 presidential total in Texas… in a midterm.

Republican raw votes stayed flat. Democratic votes exploded. Midterm turnout somehow produced presidential-level Democratic numbers.

Totally normal. Nothing to see here.