Early voting turnout could push total 2026 votes past 10 million

Well, tomorrow is midterm election day. Candidates making a final rally just to get those voters to vote. Yeah, Paige Ellenberger now here now with a look at the current turnout. Paige. Brandon, in the last hour, we talked about the race for U.S. Senate and where Democrat James Tallarico and Republican Ken Paxton are set to campaign today. But I want to focus on gubernatorial candidates this go-around, starting off with incumbent Greg Abbott. He, of course, running for his fourth term as Texas governor. Today, he's taking his Let's Roll tour to several corners of the state, starting in Texarkana this morning, Texarkana this morning, then in Houston, later on in San Antonio. Meantime, his Democratic challenger, Gina Hinojosa, will be a few blocks away from In the state capitol in Austin today, she's joining Democratic candidate for Senate James Tallarico in a rally and a community concert. Let's break down those early voting numbers. More than 7.5 million Texans cast a ballot early. That's up about 5.5 million from the 2022 midterms. Derek Ryan, an independent political consultant, is taking a closer look at who exactly voted early. This year, nearly 26,000 more Democrats voted early than Republicans. According to his data, that's a major change from past elections. You can see nearly 1 million more Republicans voted early in 2024. About 500,000 voters followed suit in 2022. And while those numbers don't exactly indicate how this election will turn out as people head to the polls tomorrow, it does show quite a trend. For Good Day, I'm Paige Ellenberger. All right, Paige, thanks again. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. tomorrow. You can count on Fox 4. We're going to bring you coverage all day, of course, starting with Good Day and then continuing through the late news. We'll also stream special election coverage online and on the Fox Local app. When the polls close, we'll have the latest election results on air and online.