Texas race becomes referendum on GOP bigotry
The gist
Republican nominee Bo French's post about South Asian UT students turned a Texas energy race national.
The contest tests whether once-extreme views are now acceptable to Texas voters.
How it unfolded
- recentlyBo French, the Republican nominee for the Texas Railroad Commission, shared a screenshot of University of Texas students, most of whom appeared to be of South Asian descent, and called them a 'problem.'
- recentlyFrench defeated longtime incumbent Jim Wright in the GOP primary and now faces a three-way general election against Democrat Jon Rosenthal and Libertarian Arthur DiBianca.
- Sep 13, 2026U.S. Sen. Jon Cornyn challenged one of French's racist posts on X, asking whether other Republican elected officials would condemn the intolerance and racism or look the other way.