Unverified: Did D'rinda Randall Defeat Abraham George for Texas GOP Chair? We Can't Confirm It.

A claim is spreading that Abraham George lost a Texas GOP chair reelection vote to D'rinda Randall at the state convention on Friday. Right now, that claim is unverifiable — not confirmed, but not debunked either. We simply don't have the evidence to call it either way.

The Texas Tribune and the Texas Republican Party's official website are the go-to sources for this kind of result. Neither has published confirmed reporting on this specific race that we could locate. That absence doesn't mean the vote didn't happen — it may mean coverage hasn't caught up yet, or that the race occurred at a county or district level rather than the statewide chair position, which would explain the limited footprint.

Abraham George and D'rinda Randall are not widely covered figures in major state or national media archives. That makes independent verification harder. A statewide Texas GOP chair race would typically draw coverage from outlets like the Houston Chronicle or Dallas Morning News. The lack of any such reporting is a yellow flag worth noting.

The strongest version of this claim is that it reflects a real but very local or very recent result that simply hasn't been documented publicly yet. That's possible. Internal party votes can be confirmed by attendees long before journalists write them up. But "possible" is not the same as confirmed, and repeating unverified election results — even internal party ones — can mislead people about who holds political power.

This kind of claim spreads fast in political circles because insiders trust word-of-mouth from people who were in the room. If you saw this claim, hold off on sharing it until the Texas Tribune, Texas GOP official records, or a named local outlet confirms the result.