Advantage: Incumbents in the West Texas party primary election this spring

Drew Landry: Incumbents win roughly 90% of reelection in elections.

Landry is an assistant professor at South Plains College of government at Lubbock.

He says donors view current officeholders as better investments than challengers.

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