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Talarico and Hinojosa win Texas races as FOX 4 covers results

The station's election-night stream drew an unusually large audience for coverage stretching from statewide contests to North Texas government.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 346,929 views a day, 76 times a normal first day on this channel (4,589).

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FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth's election-night broadcast drew about 190,000 views in its first nine hours, far beyond the station's usual audience for long broadcasts. Its coverage brought the Paxton-Talarico Senate contest, the governor's race and local elections into one live feed.

The statewide results brought a change in direction: Democrat won the U.S. Senate seat over Republican , while Democratic state representative Gina Hinojosa defeated Greg Abbott in the governor's race. Abbott had been seeking a fourth term.

The station's separate reports also brought the election down to the county level. In Tarrant County, FOX 4 reported that Democratic challenger Alisa Simmons defeated incumbent Republican County Judge Tim O'Hare. Alex Boyer's report covered that result, while Peyton Yager and David Sentendrey reported from the Senate candidates' watch parties in a separate polls-closing update.

The live stream was the central gathering point for that broader coverage. Even before a full day had passed, its views were many times the station's usual first-day total for long videos and live streams.

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The facts
Subscribers
1,020,000
Channel views, last 7 days
3,138,455
Channel views, pace per day
553,226 (on a normal day: 410,612)
Video published
November 3, 2026
Video views so far
190,011 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
346,929

The numbers

FOX 4's election broadcast had already far exceeded its usual first-day audience for long broadcasts within its opening nine hours.

the video's first day
usual first day here
4,589
this video
346,929
subscribers
1,020,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
858,576,229
views per day
553,226
typical day: 410,612
the video
views
190,011
likes
412
comments
0
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
CBS New York
1,200,000
CBS LA
1,160,000
As of November 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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