LUBBOCK, Texas — President Donald Trump is heading back to Texas in the final stretch of the midterm campaign in an attempt to rally Republican voters in a too-close-for-comfort Senate race.Trump will campaign in Corpus Christi on Tuesday morning before heading to Lubbock, deep in West Texas, alongside Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton.The two-stop visit comes exactly one week before Election Day and with early voting already underway.And Republicans are confronting an unusually competitive Senate contest in a longtime red-stronghold state that Trump carried by nearly 14 percentage points just two years ago.A new Fox News poll shows the closely-watched race against Democrat State Rep.
James Talarico in a deadlock.TEXAS VOTERS HAVE PLENTY TO SAY ABOUT WHETHER LONE STAR STATE COULD TURN BLUEHigh prices are shaping the midterm debate as voters weigh the cost of everyday life.(Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images)Tuesday’s stops mark Trump’s fourth visit to the Lone Star State since Labor Day.
The president spent two days in Dallas in early September for the GOP’s first-ever midterm convention.He was back in Texas on Oct.
1 for an event at the Peterbilt truck manufacturing plant in Denton, then returned six days later for a campaign rally in San Antonio with Paxton.A Fox News poll released Wednesday found Paxton, the state attorney general and a MAGA firebrand, and Talarico tied at 49% among likely voters in the race to replace retiring Sen.John Cornyn.Last month, Talarico held a two-point edge over Paxton, 51%-49%.The showdown between Paxton, who downed Cornyn earlier this year in a contentious GOP primary battle that went into overtime, and Talarico, a former public school teacher and state lawmaker, is looking to end Democrats’ more than 30-year statewide losing streak in Texas.
And the face-off is one of roughly a dozen Senate contests that will determine if the GOP holds on to its slim Senate majority.MEET THE VOTERS WHO COULD BREAK THE GOP’S DECADESL...