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James Talarico on the Rage Economy, Billionaires and Flipping Texas

James Talarico on the Rage Economy, Billionaires and Flipping Texas

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Our interview with James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas.

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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 Mr. Talarico.
And yet, poll after poll shows that Mr. 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 before Election Day, Michael Barbaro
spoke with Mr. Talarico about the kind of race he’s running, why
it has succeeded so far in appealing to Republicans and what he
wants Democrats to do if they flip control of the Senate on Nov.
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Guest: James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in
Texas.

Background reading:

Top Democrats, who have long been hesitant to spend money in
Texas, have started to back Mr. Talarico.

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