Paxton, Talarico Launch Texas Senate Ads as General Election Begins
Talarico opened a five-city tour and Paxton answered with an attack ad as both sides move to define the race.
- On Wednesday, Texas state Rep. and Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico launched his "The People vs. Ken Paxton" tour in Houston, framing his campaign against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as a fight against corruption and billionaire influence.
- The general election officially began Tuesday after Paxton clinched the Republican nomination, prompting both candidates to immediately launch aggressive digital ad campaigns attacking each other's character ahead of November.
- Talarico's ads highlight Paxton's impeachment and scandals costing taxpayers $6.6 million and $5.1 million, while Paxton's campaign targets Talarico's past remarks about biological sex, calling him an "extreme radical."
- Political analysts expect intensified messaging as over $168 million has already been spent across primary and runoff elections, establishing this as the nation's costliest Senate race this cycle.
- Governor Greg Abbott aims to unite Republicans for November, while Talarico seeks to appeal to independent voters and break Texas's 32-year streak without electing a Democrat to the Senate.
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Talarico embraces ‘freaky’ identity as crowds chant name meant as insult: ‘So weird’
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is fully embracing his "Talafreako" moniker given to him by Republican opponent Ken Paxton, and is even selling t-shirts with the slogan "I’m a Talafreako."While speaking at a general election kickoff event in Houston this week, Talarico encouraged supporters to purchase a T-shirt, saying, "I also saw that Ken Paxton started calling me ‘Talafreako,’ and I am proud to announce that we have ‘I'm a T…
The GOP’s ‘low-T’ strategy against Talarico in Texas
Republicans are making a Texas-sized bet that Democrat James Talarico isn’t macho enough to eek out a Senate victory in the meat-loving, religion-dominated Lone Star State. From veganism to God’s sex to transgender children, early mudslinging in the competitive race offers a window into how Republican nominee Ken Paxton and the GOP believe cultural issues could weigh down the progressive Talarico more than policy in the socially conservative s…
Whole Hog Politics: A cringeworthy opening for Texas Senate general
James Talarico seems to know what he needs to do in order to keep the Senate race in Texas competitive in the long, hot summer. The question is whether Ken Paxton does. The same woke sensibilities that made Talarico, an Austin lawmaker, a darling to the progressives in the state Democratic Party are now a serious…
How the Talarico-Paxton race could play out
With Ken Paxton's GOP primary win this week, Democrats now have the Republican Senate candidate, tactically speaking, they were hoping for.Now the question is whether their nominee, James Talarico, a young state lawmaker from Austin, can deliver them out of the wilderness.Why it matters: A Talarico win would give the Democrats an unexpected seat in their quest to retake the Senate — and potentially move Texas into the battleground column for 202…
Christian, moderate, very young, Talaric will challenge in November Ken Paxton, Trump's candidate, to try to tear Texas away from the Republicans (after tens of years). Son of a mother girl, abandoned by the biological father (alcoholic and violent), takes sides with the middle class. And he assures: "My Texan boots? I will never take them off."
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