James Talarico on His Plan to Turn Texas Blue
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- Published
- October 20, 2026
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- 35:42
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- Last updated
- Oct 20, 2026
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James Talarico is asking Texas to do something it hasn’t done in nearly 40 years: Elect a Democrat to the U.S. Senate. It won’t be easy. It will take a vast coalition of Democrats, independents and Republicans in a bright red state that President Trump won by about 14 percentage points in 2024 — and where Republicans have plowed hundreds of millions of do…
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James Talarico is asking Texas to do something it hasn’t done in nearly 40 years: Elect a Democrat to the U.S. Senate. It won’t be easy. It will take a vast coalition of Democrats, independents and Republicans in a bright red state that President Trump won by about 14 percentage points in 2024 — and where Republicans have plowed hundreds of millions of dollars into beating Talarico. And yet, poll after poll shows that Talarico could pull it off and defeat his Republican rival, Ken Paxton, the Te
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