Primary election thoughts and predictions and looking ahead

Per this, this and this, by me, let's dig in. Other links follow as needed.

I think the Senate race on the Rethuglican side goes to a runoff between the big two. Sorry, Wesley Hunt. For Democraps, having read the latest polling from the Trib, I guess it's Crockett's race to lose. Did her hit job on Talarico push her up that much? There are other polls, though, putting him ahead.

The Trib gushes that both have a national profile. She had only a backbencher social media national profile before deciding to run; he didn't even have that. The fact that R.F. O'Rourke also gushes shows where Texas Democraps actually are at.

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Both parties' AG, GOP Comptroller and GOP RRC are heading to a runoff.

On all of the above, plus Guv and Lite, I'll undervote the general in all likelihood, though I have said I'd consider Nathan Johnson for AG if he gets the Dem nod. (Crockett is as much a squish on Zionism as Talarico and Greens have no Senate candidate.)

Democraps have nobody for either of the top two executive positions,  and I've heard nothing in terms of special ideas from the Doinks running for Comptroller. Greens have nobody for these offices other than Comptroller and Lite Guv.

Kevin McCormick for Lite Gov sounds interesting but not jazzy. Shehla Fahzi for Comptroller? A Muslim who promises to trash all anti-BDS language in the Comptroller's office, a pledge I am unaware of Dem Sarah Eckhardt making. The Observer has a piece on her, but that issue was not raised.

For Ag Commissh,I won't vote for Alfred Molison, the Green, unless he admits the party was wrong to endorse Prop 4, the water amendment, and explain environmentally what is wrong with it.  

Speaking of? The Donald, going mano-a-mano with Strangeabbott, has endorsed incumbent Sid Miller in the GOP ag race. Abbott, in his first endorsement of a challenger in an executive race, broke for Nate Sheets some time ago. Given Trump's recent track record plus his general cluelessness in such races, along with this coming out after early voting was done make it next to worthless. (Yes, Rethugs more than Doinks vote on election day, but still.) 

He also endorsed the dreamy Don Huffines in the comptroller's race. Abbott, of course, is all in for Kelly Hancock, his nominee to temporarily fill the spot. That that said, the Trib notes that Trump may be a bandwagoner here, as Miller and Huffines hold polling leads. OTOH, the poll the Trib links was run before Abbott's endorsement of Sheets. 

The Observer, in "More Money than Greg," notes Abbott's massive war chest and how he throws it around.