Texas early voting exceeds total 2016 count

By Will Weissert and Paul J. Weber | Associated Press
McALLEN, Texas — Texans have already cast more ballots in the presidential election than they did during all of 2016’s race — an unprecedented surge of early voting in a state that was once the country’s most reliably Republican, but may now be drifting toward battleground status.More than 9 million ballots had been cast as of Friday morning in the nation’s second most-populous state, exceeding its 8.9-plus milli