Ken Paxton needs to start campaigning with more fervor, and fast. If Paxton doesn’t up his game, a victory, if there is one, could be a Pyrrhic victory. He could even lose. The polling, if you can believe it, shows the two candidates in a dead heat.
An Emerson College Polling/Nexstar Media survey found Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) polling at 47 percent support and state Rep. James Talarico (D) polling at 46 percent among likely Texas voters. And this is with Talarico looking like he’s borderline insane.
Paxton is an adulterer, and his staff turned him in for alleged corruption. He was not convicted. So, there’s that. Some Texans are reluctant to vote for him to begin with; they don’t like him, and his campaign isn’t going well. The Paxton ground game, donors, fundraising, and sentiments are not good enough.
If Texans topple him, they will win on one level but lose big in the Senate. Talarico is far left.
The NRSC can’t save Paxton. They are fighting to keep seats in Ohio, Maine, Iowa, and elsewhere while on offense in Michigan and losing Georgia and North Carolina. Whatley’s a disaster as a candidate. He topped out as RNC co-chair.
This panel isn’t always right, and I don’t know if their analysis is correct here, but it is interesting. They are very hard on him in this analysis because they fear he is losing and not working hard enough.
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James Talarico is weird, but his campaign is doing well in Texas.
The latest news is that Talarico thinks the Bible is propaganda and indoctrination.
The Bible is scripture and the word of God for Christians, but not for so-called Christian pastor Talarico.
Talarico is campaigning from and for the radical far left, pretending he is moderate.
James Talarico, who says he is a Christian, says telling students stories from the Bible is propaganda and indoctrination
This man is anything but a Christian
pic.twitter.com/rFd9Oj01DJ— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) August 13, 2026
Paxton called Talarico a socialist democrat, which he is.
BOOM! Trump-endorsed Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton just MIC DROPPED James Talarico
“Everything about James Talarico is FAKE! He voted from a FAKE home address 5 TIMES and this fake answer isn’t going to cut it for Texans!”
“He’s talking about being a moderate… pic.twitter.com/wB8M57agoT
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 14, 2026
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James Talarico, the left-wing Democrat now leading Republican Ken Paxton in some polls of the… pic.twitter.com/jCbpZvrgg3
— M.A. Rothman (@MichaelARothman) August 14, 2026
Paxton wins a lot.
BREAKING VICTORY: I just secured a major win upholding election integrity and preventing voter fraud.
My office will continue to defend Texas’s critical laws safeguarding our elections. https://t.co/01DI0RMCGY
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) August 13, 2026
BEST NEWS OF THE DAY
Thank God for Ken Paxton and his willingness to step in and save this precious life.
Baby Gabriel is here!
After the California parents demanded an abortion over a treatable heart defect, the surrogate refused, fled to Texas, and AG Ken Paxton secured…
— Gina Beana Fofina (@Ginasassyass) August 12, 2026
BREAKING: Texas AG Ken Paxton secured a MAJOR settlement victory against Texas Children’s Hospital, which requires them to open a detransition clinic and pay $10 million for illegally performing gender-based surgical and chemical castrations.
BIG WIN pic.twitter.com/pip79SHE1F
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 15, 2026
