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===Upcoming 2020 U.S. Senate election in Texas===

===Upcoming 2020 U.S. Senate election in Texas===

In the primary scheduled for March 3, 2020, Cornyn will face businessman [[Mark Yancey]], a largely unknown conservative grass-roots candidate from [[Dallas]] who is uncommitted to special interest groups and calls himself a "Common Sense Republican."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voteformark.com/meet-mark/|title=Meet Mark Yancey|date=December 27, 2019}}</ref> Yancey faces a herculean task because of Cornyn's high name recognition among voters. The Republican nominee will face a Democratic senatorial candidate in the pending general election on November 3, 2020. Also in the race is a 2014 primary candidate, [[Dwayne Stovall]].

In the primary held on March 3, 2020, Cornyn polled 1,481,357 unofficial votes and defeated two conservative businessmen. One of those rivals, [[Mark Yancey]], a largely unknown grass-roots candidate from [[Dallas]] who is uncommitted to special interest groups and calls himself a "Common Sense Republican,"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voteformark.com/meet-mark/|title=Meet Mark Yancey|date=December 27, 2019}}</ref> faced a herculean task because of Cornyn's high name recognition among voters. Cornyn will henceforth face in the November 3 general election a Democratic senatorial candidate yet to be determined in a pending runoff between Mary "M.J." Hegar and state Senator Royce West, an [[African-American]] from [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. Also in the race was a 2014 primary candidate, [[Dwayne Stovall]], who finished with 11 percent of the vote. Cornyn's primary total was just 500 votes below for the combined Democratic field which attracted 1,481,896 votes.

 

The Republican nominee is expected to face a Democrat, M. J. Hegar, in the November 3 general election.

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