James Talarico on His Plan to Turn Texas Blue
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James Talarico on His Plan to Turn Texas Blue

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 20, 202635 min
  • Interview
  • Politics

James Talarico is asking Texas to do something it hasn’t done in nearly 40 years: Elect a Democrat to the U.S. Senate. It won’t be easy. It will take a vast coalition of Democrats, independents and Republicans in a bright red state that President Trump won by about 14 percentage points in 2024 — and where Republicans have plowed hundreds of millions of dollars into beating Talarico. And yet, poll after poll shows that Talarico could pull it off and defeat his Republican rival, Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and a Trump ally. On Monday, nearly two weeks b...

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From The New York Times, I'm Michael Baubarro. This is The Daily. In bright red Texas, James Tallarico is trying to become the first Democrat to be elected to the United States Senate in nearly 40 years, in what's become by far the most expensive and ferocious campaign of this year's midterm elections. Today, we speak with Tallarico about

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the kind of race he's running, the highly personal campaign against him, and what he wants Democrats to do if they take back control of Congress. It's Tuesday, October 20th. Hey there.

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