{"id":107325,"date":"2026-11-01T22:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-issue-that-could-tip-the-scales-in-the-texas-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T22:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:43:16","slug":"the-issue-that-could-tip-the-scales-in-the-texas-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-issue-that-could-tip-the-scales-in-the-texas-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The issue that could tip the scales in the Texas Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>This year&#8217;s midterm elections in Texas are on track to cost a billion dollars, with more than half of it spent on the U.S. Senate campaign \u2013 what could be the most expensive non-presidential race in American history. But whatever the price tag, it&#8217;s certainly one of the most combative.<\/p>\n<p>Republican State Attorney General Ken Paxton&#8217;s campaign bus displays a rally cry from the 19th century Texas revolution against Mexico: &#8220;Come and take it.&#8221; Paxton, whose government tenure has been marked by controversy, is President Trump&#8217;s hand-picked candidate. At a rally October 23, Paxton exhorted the crowd: &#8220;Do you believe in protecting Texas and stopping Sharia law? So do I. Do you believe that parents, not the government, should raise your children? So do I.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/10\/31\/fcec87bd-bf57-4106-b089-54662108c543\/thumbnail\/620x349\/8b2c2a5f5219624095e090d97c45d5f5\/paxton-talarico-montage.jpg#\" alt=\"paxton-talarico-montage.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/10\/31\/fcec87bd-bf57-4106-b089-54662108c543\/thumbnail\/620x349\/8b2c2a5f5219624095e090d97c45d5f5\/paxton-talarico-montage.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/10\/31\/fcec87bd-bf57-4106-b089-54662108c543\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/465b0cec13313c450fdd92b17113b11d\/paxton-talarico-montage.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">In Texas, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democratic State Representative James Talarico are running for U.S. Senate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Paxton&#8217;s opponent is a Presbyterian seminarian and former middle-school teacher, State Representative James Talarico. Going into Election Day, polls show the two locked in a tight race.<\/p>\n<p>Talarico draws his campaign&#8217;s closing theme from the TV show about Texas high-school football, &#8220;Friday Night Lights.&#8221; He told a crowd in San Antonio Oct. 24, &#8220;To win this election, we have to execute. We have to leave it all on the field. We have to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The issues in Texas mirror concerns across the country: high prices, immigration, government corruption, and the power of big tech and billionaires. As the song goes, &#8220;The eyes of Texas are upon you.&#8221; And now, all eyes are on Texas. <\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;A big, messy, complicated election&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Sarah Adler Hartman and Matthew Watkins are the CEO and editor-in-chief of the Texas Tribune, a non-profit and non-partisan news organization. We invited them to the historic Salt Lick restaurant, just outside Austin, for some Hill Country barbecue, and a little politics. <\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/10\/31\/e2bc0827-c095-4414-8092-4d67bbabc0a8\/thumbnail\/620x465\/29937fd5a56fb48394e78d3d1356db89\/matthew-watkins-sarah-adler-hartman-1280.jpg#\" alt=\"matthew-watkins-sarah-adler-hartman-1280.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/10\/31\/e2bc0827-c095-4414-8092-4d67bbabc0a8\/thumbnail\/620x465\/29937fd5a56fb48394e78d3d1356db89\/matthew-watkins-sarah-adler-hartman-1280.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/10\/31\/e2bc0827-c095-4414-8092-4d67bbabc0a8\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/cb6e78ba7b2f05c8e70a22429445d922\/matthew-watkins-sarah-adler-hartman-1280.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Matthew Watkins and Sarah Adler Hartman of the Texas Tribune.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Asked whether all the attention on Texas is inflating the egos of Texans to be the center of the political universe, Hartman replied, &#8220;Everything&#8217;s bigger in Texas!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hartman acknowledges that despite the popular image of Texas, the state has a growing Asian American population, a growing Latino population, and more people moving here from around the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Texas is very different than the caricature that people paint of Texas from outside of the state,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and I think you see this, and you see some of the growing pains, the cognitive dissonance in this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watkins noted, &#8220;There&#8217;s more Democratic voters in Texas than there are in Massachusetts. There&#8217;s traditionally Democratic voters in rural areas of the Rio Grande Valley who are very socially conservative. There&#8217;s, you know, really liberal white people in Austin. That&#8217;s how we get into a big, messy, complicated election like we&#8217;re in now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;These races are all about turnout&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Last weekend, &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; followed Paxton and Talarico as both stumped in and around San Antonio, and spoke to some of their supporters. <\/p>\n<p>Paxton&#8217;s backers say the race is about what it means to be a true Texan. One man said of Democrats moving to the state, &#8220;They don&#8217;t understand. They&#8217;re bringing their point of views here, and it&#8217;s going to ruin it. It&#8217;ll be just like California if something doesn&#8217;t change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another woman said she doesn&#8217;t see Talarico as a Democrat: &#8220;He is more for Communism and taking away the rights that we have been founded on in this country,&#8221; she said, adding he &#8220;alarms&#8221; her. <\/p>\n<p>Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has been on the trail campaigning for Paxton. &#8220;Look, this race is neck-and neck; it is a dead heat,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;These races are all about turnout. The left is going to show up. They hate Donald Trump. They&#8217;re going to show up. The question is, does everybody else? Do regular people come out and vote? If regular people come out and vote, we&#8217;ll win Texas and have a good election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;There are a lot more decent people&#8221; \u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Talarico supporters say GOP attacks on their candidate, over the border and transgender rights, are not working.<\/p>\n<p>One woman doesn&#8217;t buy the argument that Latino voters in Texas are turned off by Talarico on cultural issues: &#8220;I mean, I&#8217;m Latina, so I&#8217;m Brown and proud,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I just voted this morning for James Talarico, so I am very excited to see, hopefully, the change that&#8217;s going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That change won&#8217;t come easy. Conservative republicans have run Texas for decades. But some Democrats feel their time has come. One woman got emotional telling us, &#8220;I&#8217;m hoping that this election will see that there are decent people, there are a lot more decent people than there are corrupt and cruel people. It&#8217;s not about being Republican, it&#8217;s not about being Democrat right now. It is good versus evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Joaquin Castro, a San Antonio Democrat, says economic concerns are paramount, even if the culture fights get the headlines. &#8220;Prices are so high, you know, people are really feeling it economically. They feel like they don&#8217;t have time for [cultural issue fights]. I mean, all these attacks on transgender or all this other culture stuff? It&#8217;s like, I can&#8217;t pay my bills, I can&#8217;t afford gas. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also, you know, James Talarico, he really is a generational talent,&#8221; Castro said. &#8220;I know you hear that. But he&#8217;s somebody who&#8217;s trying to unify people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although diners back at the Salt Lick didn&#8217;t appear to give it much notice, rising costs \u2013 of beef and gas, and housing \u2013 could be the deciding factor here and nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of people nationwide who view Texas as sort of the beating heart of conservatism for the country,&#8221; said the Texas Tribune&#8217;s Matthew Watkins. &#8220;There are people on the right who say, &#8216;We can&#8217;t lose Texas or else we lose the country&#8217;; there are people who on the left who say, &#8216;Man, if we win Texas, like, this is a big deal.&#8217; There&#8217;s this sort of psychological weight that is on it that makes people feel like, <em>Okay, we can&#8217;t lose this<\/em>, or, <em>What if we win this?<\/em> That is causing people to really take interest in this race&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/><em>Story produced by Ed Forgotson. 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