Texas primary voters of both parties voted with cool heads Tuesday, rejecting candidates who appealed to their parties’ bases with more inflammatory styles that could have proved riskier in a general election.

Texas Republicans’ bitter Senate primary will stretch into May, with Sen. John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton advancing to a runoff after neither candidate secured 50 percent of the vote...

As of Wednesday morning, Talarico had 53% of the vote to Crockett’s 46%, with 92% of votes counted, according to the Associated Press.