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Races · house · 2026 · Texas
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Tanya Lloyd vs Michael Cloud

Safe RR +25.5 forecast · 3 months 27 days to election· 0 polls · 2 marketsMarkets 11h agoRating today
Live model · win probabilityupdated 11h ago · poliagg-v34
2% Lloyd (D)
98% Cloud (R)
R+15R+5TIEDD+5D+15
Predicted final margin R +25.5 · 80% CI R+41.6 → R+9.4 · 3 months 27 days to election
Momentum
insufficient data
Tipping-point P
3.6%
Decisive for chamber control
Market · D-side
D 14¢
Cross-platform consensus
News articles · 30d
no recent coverage
Where this race stands
Verified

Likely R · model 98% R

No recent polls or markets for this race. PVI baseline (R+14) suggests Likely R.

The poliagg-v34 ensemble forecasts R+25.5 with an 80% CI ranging from R+41.6 (10th pctile) to R+9.4 (90th pctile), giving R a 98% chance of winning.

Tipping-point probability: 3.6% of simulations see this race as decisive for chamber control.

CITATIONS · likely-r · low-tipping
Forecast · poliagg-v34
Predicted final margin
R +25.5
80% CI: R +41.6R +9.4 · win prob 2%
R+45R+23TIEDD+23D+45
Quality · inputs
Data quality · medium
Polls used0
Days to election118
Residual σ12.56pt
Generated7/7/2026
Compare with other models2 models
qgbt-v1GBT (qgbt)
R +34.1
80% CI R +38.9 → R +28.5
CV MAE 8.51
consensusMarket-implied
R +10.1
no interval
market-implied

Prediction markets

Consensus · D 14¢1 platformupdated 11h ago
Cross-platform price · history
5¢10¢15¢20¢54 DAYS · D YES PRICENOWMay 14Jul 7
Per-platform · current
PlatformD YESR YES7d ΔVolvs cons
Polymarket
Will the Democratic Party win the TX-27 House seat?
14¢86¢+2¢+0

Endorsements · 8 total

Source · Wikipedia · 0 candidates with no endorsements yet
4Lloyd · 50%
Cloud · 50%4
RMichael Cloud4 endorsers
Most notable · Donald Trump · 45th and 47th president of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present)
Elected officials2
Federal 1State 1Local 0
Newspapers1
Organizations1
DTanya Lloyd4 endorsers
Most notable · Austin American-Statesman
Newspapers2
Organizations2

Money raised · own committees

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · last filing 2026-03-31
Michael CloudH8TX27049 ↗
Receipts
$902.6K
Disburse
$759.6K
Cash on hand
$279.8K
Debts
$5.0K
No industry data.
No contributor data.
Tanya LloydOWN COMMITTEE
Receipts
$123.2K
Disburse
$117.2K
Cash on hand
$6.2K
Debts
$24.3K
No industry data.
No contributor data.

Outside spending · independent expenditures

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · 24/48-hr IE reports
IE total
$999.97
D side
$0 · 0%
R side
$999.97 · 100%
Top spender
FREEDOM CAUCUS FUND
For / against split
For Cloud $999.97
SpenderSideAmountShareTarget
FREEDOM CAUCUS FUNDR$946.2695%for Michael Cloud
TEXAS ALLIANCE FOR LIFE FED PACR$53.715%for Michael Cloud

Editorial ratings · 4 raters

Cook · Sabato · Inside Elections · 538 · DDHQ et al.
Safe R4
Cook Political Report
Safe R
Jun 17
Inside Elections
Safe R
Jun 24
Sabato's Crystal Ball
Safe R
Jun 8
Split Ticket
Safe R
Jun 24

Demographic crosstabs

age · education · race · gender
No demographic crosstabs published for this race yet. Most pollsters release only topline numbers; subgroup breakdowns (age, education, race, gender) appear here when a pollster publishes them.
Rating timeline
May 5, 2026Safe Rmodel
May 3, 2026Likely Rmodel
Verification trail
Polls verified0 / 0deterministic
Polls flaggednone
Markets ingested1 platformupdated 11h ago
FEC filingssyncedcommittee + IE · 2026-03-31
Endorsements8 totalWikipedia scrape
News coverage< 5 articlesGoogle News
Method · bounds + percentage totals + date-order checks