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U.S. House · Updated Oct 9

Texas's 2nd District

Steve Toth win chance

98%

Typical margin: Toth by 15.5

Republican

Shaun Finnie 2%Steve Toth 98%

Who's running

Shaun FinnieDemocrat
Steve TothRepublican

The numbers behind it

Cook Political ReportAs of Sep 23, 2026Solid R
Money raisedFEC, through Jun 30, 2026Finnie $2.7MToth $824K
Campaign money

Shaun Finnie

Raised $2.7M · $1.5M cash on hand · through Jun 30, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Steve Toth

Raised $824K · $153K cash on hand · through Jun 30, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Our model counts the money gap as worth 0.5 points to Shaun Finnie. Even a 10× gap is worth at most 1.5.

Other filers in this race raised $14K in total.

Candidates' own committees only, from fec.gov. Third-quarter reports are due Oct 15.

How the numbers moved
  1. Sep 23Cook Political Report: Solid RCook Political Report
  2. Jun 30Steve Toth had raised $824KFEC filing
  3. Jun 30Shaun Finnie had raised $2.7MFEC filing
How we got this number

We blend the polling average (when there is one) with the race's fundamentals: past results, incumbency, the national mood and the money. Then we play the election out 40,000 times, with polling misses that move every race together, and count how often each side wins.

90% of the model's 40,000 simulated elections land between R+27.5 and R+3.0.

No public polls yet, so this forecast rests on the fundamentals alone, with a wider range.

Our method ›