Texas Senate race is tightening so dont let James Talarico hide his lefty lunacy

The race for control of the US Senate is a dead heat.Conventional wisdom suggests the contests in swingy states like Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia could prove decisive — and they might.But it’s possible that the fate of the chamber known as the “world’s greatest deliberative body” will come down to a state not usually considered all that swingy: Texas.Everything’s always bigger in Texas, and that now includes the stakes for Senate control.For over a decade, Democrats have touted the purported inevitability of Texas turning blue.“Demographics is destiny,” Democrats bellowed, taunting Republicans by pointing to the state’s burgeoning Hispanic population.That argument seemed to fade in 2020, when President Donald Trump made historic gains in Texas’ heavily Hispanic Rio Grande Valley region.And if the triumphalist chest-thumping withered in 2020, then it really died in 2024, when Trump won about one-fifth of black men and nearly half of all Hispanics nationally.What about now?The polling average in the Lone Star State’s Senate showdown shows a marginal lead for Democratic challenger James Talarico, the far-left state representative.Talarico is running against Ken Paxton, the controversial state attorney general who trounced incumbent John Cornyn in the spring GOP primary run-off after gaining Trump’s endorsement.It’s easy to dismiss the Talarico threat as a false alarm.I lived in Texas in 2018, when Lone Star Democrats similarly felt confident that then-Rep.Beto O’Rourke would defeat the incumbent GOP senator, Ted Cruz.That didn’t happen: In a similar tough midterm cycle during a Trump presidency, Cruz narrowly prevailed.But what if this time is different?Talarico might not win — in fact, I don’t think he will — but it’s crucial for Republicans to understand how to prevent a leftist, “Christian”-cosplaying caricature like James “the Annunciation justifies abortion” Talarico from getting a job promotion to Washington....