Houston Mayor
100% of precincts reporting
Turner (D)
108,389 (51%)
King (R)
104,307 (49%)
Heartbreakingly close. Ugh. IIIRC the 2001 race was similarly close with Orlando Sanchez as the GOP candidate. Ugh, again.
I live in the area. This should’ve been a slam dunk for King. The lesbo mayor ran the city into a deficit and folks here were tired of her pushing her tranny bathroom bill, over and over.
King had the most pitiful ads running. I thought “is he trying to lose the race?”. He has a very feminine sounding voice, didn’t play well on air, and he did his own commercials. (think Bobby Jindal)
It’s a target rich environment. He needed a professional voice to speak for him, on his ads, and make all of the easy points, for the win. He had Mattress Mack make an ad for him, the last two weeks, but even that ad was incredibly weak/unprofessional sounding.
Seems like it could have beenmwon, appears close.
The 1-2% can easily be accounted for in democrat vote cheating.
200,000 voters in a city with a population of over 2 million? Nice turn out folks /s