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Trump Returns to Texas for a High-Stakes Push to Keep the State in Republican Hands

A new poll shows James Talarico leading 50% to 45% as Trump makes a third Texas swing this month to rally Republican turnout.

  • On Tuesday, President Donald Trump visits Texas for back-to-back rallies in Corpus Christi and Lubbock, marking his fourth trip to the state in recent weeks to boost Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton.
  • Paxton faces Democrat James Talarico in a competitive race as Republicans defend a 32-year winning streak in the Lone Star State. Talarico has capitalized on Paxton's known ethical and legal problems.
  • Corpus Christi sits in the state's 34th Congressional District, a competitive House race where Republicans seek to retain Hispanic voters during the campaign's final stretch.
  • Vice President JD Vance, a potential 2028 successor, is campaigning in Michigan with stops planned in Montana, Kansas, and Howell today as part of the broader Republican effort.
  • Election Day arrives in one week as Republican leaders fight to defend their national winning streak. Both Trump and Vance have made numerous trips this month to boost party candidates in key battlegrounds.
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In a particularly conservative state, the candidacy of James Talarico, a 37-year-old Presbyterian seminarian, as a senator, once again suggests to the Democrats that they hope repeatedly and again disappointed to win a national election.

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For the first time in more than thirty years, Texas's Conservative state democrats hope to win a seat in the Senate, and give their party the majority in the upper house of Congress. Their candidate campaigns on the expensive life and corruption of the Trump administration.

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Trump campaigns in Texas in last push for Republicans

(The Center Square) - President Donald Trump campaigned in Texas on Tuesday as part of his last push for Republicans running for office in the Lone Star State.

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