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In the primary held on March 3, 2020, Cornyn polled 1,481,357 unofficial votes (76 percent) and defeated four intra-party opponents. [[Mark Yancey]], a largely unknown grass-roots candidate from [[Dallas]] who claimed to have been 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. He polled 118,362 votes (6.1 percent). Cornyn will henceforth face Also in the November 3 general election Republican primary was a Democratic senatorial 2014 primary candidate yet to be determined in a pending runoff between Mary "M.J." Hegar, who polled 412,897 votes (22.3 percent) and veteran state Senator Royce West, an [[African-American]] from [[Houston, Texas|HoustonDwayne Stovall]], who drew 269finished second in 2020 with 231,028 294 votes (14.5 12 percent). Narrowly edged out of the Democratic runoff is the Hispanic activist Cristina Tzintzan Ramirez, who received 244,705 votes (13.2 slightly more percent)-wise than he had polled against Cornyn in the earlier 2014 primary.

Also in the Republican The Democrat primary was went to a 2014 primary candidateJuly 2020 runoff between Mary "M.J." Hegar, who polled 412,897 votes (22.3 percent) and veteran state Senator Royce West, an [[Dwayne StovallAfrican-American]] from [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], who finished second in 2020 with 231drew 269,294 votes 028 (12 14.5 percent), slightly more percent-wise than he had polled against Cornyn in the earlier 2014 primary. Turnout in Narrowly edged out of the Democratic Senate primary runoff was 1,853,323 votes; all of the Republican Senate candidates Hispanic activist Cristina Tzintzan Ramirez, who received a total of 1,926244,477 705 votes, or 73,000 more than (13.2 percent). Hegar won the field of Democratic candidatesDemocrat runoff.

Turnout in the Democratic Senate primary was 1,853,323 votes; all of the Republican Senate candidates received a total of 1,926,477 votes, or 73,000 more than the field of Democratic candidates. Cornyn defeated [[Democrat]] challenger [[MJ Hegar]] in the November 3rd general election by around ten points.<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-elections/texas-senate-results Texas Senate Election Results 2020Texas Senate Results], NBC News, November 3, 2020.</ref>