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Where Senate, governor races stand

As early voting opens, a new University of Houston poll shows where Democrats and Republicans stand in the Texas Senate race and other statewide races.

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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal· Oct 19, 1:30 PMWhere Senate, governor races standAlso ran in Amarillo Globe-News

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With Ken Paxton's race faltering, GOP looks for someone to blameTexas's Senate race is devolving into a blame game among Republicans weeks out from Election Day as the party's nominee Ken Paxton faces a stream of negative headlines and Democrats grow increasingly confident about flipping the state. Republican tensions spilled into the public Thursday when President Trump lashed out at incumbent Sen. John Cornyn…

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'The Chosen' actor Jordan Walker Ross endorses TX Democrat Talarico"The Chosen" actor Jordan Walker Ross endorsed James Talarico for Texas Senate, launching Faithful Texans for Talarico ahead of his race against Ken Paxton.

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Can Ken Paxton outrun a trail of scandal to win US Senate seat in ruby-red Texas?Depending how you look at the situation, it is either predictable that Ken Paxton, Texas’s attorney general and Republican candidate for US Senate, is

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Texas race for U.S. Senate recommendationJames Talarico’s challenge of Ken Paxton raises critical questions about our state’s independence and willingness to stand against corruption.

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James Talarico is close to taking Texas. Republicans are to blameTalarico leads Paxton in Texas because Republicans are ignoring voters’ cost-of-living worries. Democrats could flip the Senate seat.

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‘Secret underground club’ of Texas suburban women threatens to kneecap Ken PaxtonKen Paxton is losing ground with a crucial bloc of voters in the Houston suburbs, and it could cost Republicans a Senate seat in Texas. Talarico yard signs appear to outnumber Paxton’s in Bridgeland, a sprawling subdivision in the conservative Cypress area, and voters on both sides told The Washington Post that Paxton, the state’s scandal-plagued…

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Please Don’t Film the Breakfast Buffet at Ken Paxton’s “Come and Take It” Bus TourKen Paxton’s message to voters in the home stretch of his closely contested US Senate race with Democrat James Talarico is a mystery to me. I don’t mean that I don’t understand it—I mean I don’t know what it is, because before I could listen to his remarks at the launch of the “Come and […]

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The Chicks, Kacey MusgravesJames Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate from Texas, has been popping up at country concerts, including at the Chicks' show in San Antonio.

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Paxton, Talarico rally North Texas with dual warnings as voting beginKen Paxton, James Talarico rally North Texas with competing warnings as voting begin

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