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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans picked the state's attorney general in the fight to succeed longtime Gov. Rick Perry, while a rising Democratic star coasted to her party's nomination Tuesday night during the nation's first statewide primary. 
  
 Voters arrive at a polling site, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, in San Antonio. Texas is holding the nation's first primary election Tuesday with a political free-for-all in Republican races that could push... (Associated Press) 
  
 A voter braves the cold weather at the Brook Hollow Branch of the San Antonio Public Library on Tuesday, March 4, 2014, in San Antonio, Texas. Texas is holding the nation's first primary election Tuesday... (Associated Press) 
  
 Voters casts ballots for the primary election Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at North High Mount Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Joyce Marshall) MAGS OUT; (FORT... (Associated Press) 
  
 George P. Bush, holding his with son Prescott, turned out to vote in the primary election Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at North High Mount Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas. The 37-year-old nephew of... (Associated Press) 
  
 Rain falls as a voter makes his way from the Metropolitan Multi-Services Center as the doors open to voters, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, in Houston. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty) (Associated Press) 
  
 Texas Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, visits with volunteers manning a call center at her campaign headquarters, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, in Fort Worth, Texas. Texas is holding the nation's first primary... (Associated Press) 
  
 Voters cast their ballots at North Hi Mount Elementary School as children make their way to class Tuesday March 4, 2014 Fort Worth, Texas. Texas is holding the nation's first primary election Tuesday... (Associated Press) 
  
 Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott speaks with the media after casting his vote at Western Hills Church of Christ in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman,... (Associated Press) 
  
 Voters including Tim Foreman turned out to vote in the primary election Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at North High Mount Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Joyce... (Associated Press) 
  
 Warnings about Democrat Wendy Davis' star-making run for Texas governor threatening two decades of Republican dominance dealt complacent conservatives a new reason to vote. So did a rare opportunity to select an entirely new stable of leaders after 14 years under Perry. 
  
 Perry's decision to not seek re-election launched a stampede of 26 Republican candidates vying for six of Texas' top offices. Among them was George P. Bush, the 37-year-old nephew of former President George W. Bush and son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who easily won the nomination for land commissioner in his political debut. 
  
 In the first primary since Ted Cruz barreled into the U.S. Senate in 2012 and yanked Republicans nationwide further right, Texas candidates willingly went along. U.S. Sen John Cornyn, who didn't get an endorsement from his fellow Texas senator, routed his primary challenger. 
  
 "I say they are not going far right enough," said Marlin Robinson, 56, after casting his primary ballot in Houston. "They need to go further right, as far as I'm concerned because I'm tired of this liberal crap that's running this country." 
  
 Attorney General Greg Abbott clinched the Republican nomination for governor and Davis locked up her party's selection, thereby making official a showdown poised to become a record-shattering arm's race of fundraising in a Texas gubernatorial election. 
  
 Abbott, who only three weeks ago unapologetically campaigned with shock rocker Ted Nugent, never mentioned Davis in becoming the GOP's first new gubernatorial nominee other than Perry since George W. Bush in 1998. 
  
 "If you're looking for a way to get ahead, if you're looking for a way to succeed or elevate or advance yourself, than I'm your candidate," Abbott said. 
  
 In another sign of a rightward drift, state Sen. Dan Patrick, who drew heat from even fellow Republicans for bemoaning an "invasion" of immigrants coming across the Texas-Mexico border, headed for a runoff in the lieutenant governor's race with longtime incumbent David Dewhurst. 
  
 "In Texas, we will show the rest of the country what it means to be conservative," Patrick said. 
  
 Democrats set on breaking the nation's longest losing streak in races for statewide office, meanwhile, hoped a charismatic headliner in Davis would turn out long-dormant voters. 
  
 Davis, who catapulting to national political stardom last summer with a nearly 13-hour filibuster over abortion restrictions, is the first female gubernatorial nominee in Texas since Ann Richards in 1994. 
  
 Her underdog campaign has raised $16 million so far behind a whopping 91,000 individual donors and big checks from abortion-rights groups. 
  
 "If people don't start supporting the Democratic Party and voting as a Democrat, instead of being a Democrat voting in the Republican primary, then we're never going to win races and we're never going to establish ourselves as a serious party here," said Janet Veal, 43, a student adviser at Texas Tech University. 
  
 That possibility, and the rising influence of Cruz, has Texas Republicans flanking farther right this primary season. Some pledged to further tighten some of the nation's strictest abortion laws and double down on the state's gay marriage ban — one of several state bans recently ruled unconstitutional by federal courts. 
  
 "I think we need to bolster the border security and get tougher on immigration," 38-year-old conservative Republican Glendon Paulk said after voting in Lubbock. "I'm all for people who come over here legally but the illegal immigrants, it doesn't make sense for them to get a break while we're working and having to pay taxes." 
  
 Frigid weather greeted some voters with a dangerous drive to the polls. Austin locations opened late because of icy conditions and extended voting for two hours. Turnout was light in many places, with election workers seen knitting or reading a newspaper in between voters' sporadic arrivals. 
  
 The last time Texas had so many open statewide seats was 2002, when Perry won his first full term. While Democrats are running mostly unopposed in their primaries, crowded fields in the Republican races for attorney general, comptroller and commissioners for agriculture and railroads make May runoffs likely. 
  
 Unlike Davis and Abbott, few other Texas candidates have the luxury of uneventful primaries. 
  
 Almost all were on the Republican side, where candidates have wooed voters with vows to emulate Cruz's no-compromise style. Even Cornyn and U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, another powerful Republican who coasted again to the nomination, spent money campaigning against longshot challengers who said the incumbents had grown too moderate in Washington. 
  
 Cornyn routed tea party-backed Texas congressman Steve Stockman, who ran a bizarre primary campaign. 
  
 Illinois holds the nation's next primary March 18, followed by a flood of state primaries in May and June. 
  
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 Associated Press writers Will Weissert and Chris Tomlinson in Austin, Juan Carlos Llorca in El Paso, Betsy Blaney in Lubbock, and Ramit Plushnick-Masti and Michael Graczyk in Houston contributed to this report. 
  
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 Follow Paul J. Weber on Twitter: www.twitter.com/pauljweber ||||| George P. Bush, son of former Florida governor Jeb Bush, wins the Republican nomination for Texas land commissioner. (Reuters) 
  
 Bush family scion George P. Bush (R) took a step closer to becoming land commissioner of Texas Tuesday, easily defeating his only primary opponent. 
  
 With 5 percent of precincts reporting, Bush led David Watts 75 percent to 25 percent. The Associated Press called the race for Bush shortly after all polls closed in the state. 
  
 The nephew of former president George W. Bush and son of former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R), George P. Bush will start the general election as a substantial favorite against Democrat John Cook. 
  
 Land commissioner is a powerful position in Texas. It could be a good launching board for Bush to pursue higher office down the road, should he win the job this fall. ||||| Photo Advertisement Continue reading the main story 
  
 McALLEN, Tex. — Establishment Republican leaders on Tuesday defeated challenges from the right in a statewide primary election as conservatives inspired by Senator Ted Cruz largely failed to topple mainstream incumbents, and a race for lieutenant governor headed for a runoff. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 Two Republican leaders in Congress — Senator John Cornyn and Representative Pete Sessions — and a number of other Republicans in the House overcame opponents backed by Tea Party activists. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst will face a conservative state senator, Dan Patrick, in a runoff on May 27, a sign that Mr. Dewhurst’s loss to Mr. Cruz in the 2012 Senate primary runoff continued to hurt his popularity. 
  
 Mr. Dewhurst’s race was a significant contrast to how the battle between establishment and Tea Party conservatives played out elsewhere. Mr. Patrick, a radio talk show host with significant Tea Party support, won more votes than Mr. Dewhurst, who placed second. 
  
 Mr. Patrick is known for aggressive stands on guns, God, abortion and illegal immigration, and his brash style has earned him a number of detractors, including some Republicans. “I’m a Christian first, a conservative second and a Republican third,” Mr. Patrick often said on the campaign trail. 
  
 Mr. Dewhurst had been criticized for pandering to the far right, by calling for President Obama’s impeachment and suggesting his support of a repeal of the 17th Amendment. A repeal of the amendment, which established the election of senators by popular vote rather than by state legislatures, is a favorite Tea Party cause. 
  
 There were no surprises in the race for governor as the Republican and Democratic front-runners — Greg Abbott, the state attorney general, and State Senator Wendy Davis — won their primaries and will face each other in the general election in November. Ms. Davis is trying to become the first Democratic governor of Texas in two decades. 
  
 Around the state, frigid temperatures and icy conditions may have dampened turnout, an anticlimactic end to one of the most crowded, expensive and fiercely fought statewide Republican primaries in recent history. The 12 Republicans running for lieutenant governor, attorney general and agriculture commissioner spent a total of roughly $35 million from January 2013 to late last month. 
  
 The crowded races were prompted by the announcement last year by Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, that he was not running for re-election. His decision set off a round of political musical chairs as dozens of Republican leaders and mavericks jostled for higher office, inspired in part by Mr. Cruz, a Tea Party-backed lawyer who had never held public office before defeating Mr. Dewhurst in 2012. 
  
 The success of several Republican incumbents Tuesday suggested to some that the influence of the Tea Party here had waned. But to others, it merely showed that the incumbents had managed to appease Tea Party conservatives by steering farther to the right. Still others said the Tea Party-supported candidates who were successful in ousting incumbents in the state Legislature, or forcing them into runoffs, were a sign of the movement’s continued strength in Texas. In one race, Matt Rinaldi, a Tea Party-backed challenger to a state House incumbent, appeared to have won the Republican primary by fewer than 100 votes. 
  
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 In addition to Mr. Dewhurst, another Republican in the fight of his political life was a longtime congressman, Ralph M. Hall, who failed to win enough votes to avoid a runoff with John Ratcliffe, a former chief federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Texas. Mr. Hall has been in Congress since 1981 and, at 90, is the oldest person to serve in the House. 
  
 The primary served as a kind of referendum on Mr. Cornyn. He faced seven challengers, a sign of the frustration among some Tea Party activists and conservative groups with him for failing to back Mr. Cruz in his efforts to shut down the government over Mr. Obama’s health care law and to block a vote to raise the federal debt ceiling. But Mr. Cornyn’s main challenger, Representative Steve Stockman, made few campaign appearances, and Mr. Cornyn beat him easily. 
  
 George P. Bush — the nephew of former President George W. Bush, who served as governor here from 1995 to 2000 — easily won the race for land commissioner, a relatively low-profile position that some Republicans have used as a steppingstone for higher office. His win illustrated the lasting influence of the family political brand and provided Hispanic conservatives with their highest-profile spokesman here. 
  
 Mr. Bush, whose mother is Mexican-American, is a co-founder of Hispanic Republicans of Texas, a political action committee. Analysts say he could play a major role in helping Republicans woo Hispanics in Texas, a population that has traditionally voted Democratic. 
  
 For Democrats, the primary was not nearly as competitive, although several races were noteworthy. The musician and humorist Kinky Friedman, who ran for governor in 2006, sought the Democratic nomination for agriculture commissioner. Advocating the legalization of marijuana, he won enough votes to find himself in a runoff. |||||
Election season has kicked off with the nation's first statewide primary, in which 26 GOP candidates jostled for the nominations for six of Texas' top jobs—and another George Bush was among the winners. Some highlights from the Texas primaries: Sen. John Cornyn and several House Republicans were able to fight off Tea Party challengers inspired by Ted Cruz, the state's junior senator. Some observers saw the incumbents' victories as a sign that the Tea Party movement is fading, while others noted that the incumbents had shifted a long way to the right to win conservative votes, the New York Times finds. There were no surprises in the primaries for governor, reports the AP. Rising star Wendy Davis cruised to victory in the Democratic primary, while front-runner Greg Abbott, the state's attorney general, was the Republican choice to succeed Rick Perry. The political career of another George Bush was launched with George P. Bush's victory in the primary for state land commissioner, reports the Washington Post, noting that the post is a powerful one in Texas and could be a "good launching board for Bush to pursue higher office down the road." The 37-year-old attorney, son of Jeb and nephew of George W., is expected to easily defeat his Democratic opponent. Another famous name, this time on the Democratic side: Country singer, humorist, and perennial candidate Kinky Friedman got enough votes to make a run-off election in the Democratic primary for agriculture commissioner, Politico reports. His top priority: Legalizing marijuana.