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🚨SHOCKING SURGE: Ken Paxton's odds of winning the Texas Senate race have increased SIGNIFICANTLY against James Talarico.
X ^ | 08/24/2026 | Election Timè

Posted on 08/25/2026 3:36:59 AM PDT by SmokingJoe

🚨SHOCKING SURGE: Ken Paxton's odds of winning the Texas Senate race have increased SIGNIFICANTLY against James Talarico.

Texas - 2026 Senate (odds)

🟥Ken Paxton 53% (+6)

🟦James Talarico 47%

Odds via @Kalshi.




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1 posted on 08/25/2026 3:36:59 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

A shock to whom.?


2 posted on 08/25/2026 3:40:17 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: SmokingJoe

You absolutely cannot believe polls.

The last one that the RATs were fawning over turned out to have been published by a 21-year-old guy, and it was 100% fabricated. Not a person was polled.

Some probably are good, but my mind’s default has to be that they’re all crap. Ignore polls; trust your own gut and research.


3 posted on 08/25/2026 3:40:20 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: SmokingJoe

N, the polls gave up trying to lie to us because it was becoming so obvious how fake they were

OR

People finally got to know Talawierdo.

Either way for the FR pearl clutches and lovers of the democrat Coryn, what say you now?


4 posted on 08/25/2026 3:41:28 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: jmaroneps37
A shock to legacy media who've been pushing fake pro Talarico polls?
5 posted on 08/25/2026 3:46:52 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

How is Talaweirdo at 47%?
He is everything that is wrong with our culture.


6 posted on 08/25/2026 4:05:55 AM PDT by SisterK (to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly)
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To: SisterK

Because 47% of the people polled represent everything that is wrong with our culture.


7 posted on 08/25/2026 4:09:43 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: SmokingJoe

General election polls aren’t worth paying attention to until September. The recent Talarico “bump” was likely a media invention.


8 posted on 08/25/2026 4:10:07 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Talarico is Italian for "heretic".)
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To: SmokingJoe

I’m shocked. The numbers are moving toward the trend and historic pattern. Imagine that!


9 posted on 08/25/2026 4:12:08 AM PDT by jimfree (My 23 y/o granddaughter has more quality exec experience than most Dem pres candidates.)
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To: SisterK
He raised far more money than Paxton before.
Now the Musk money for Paxton is starting to come in.
10 posted on 08/25/2026 4:14:44 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SisterK

Good question but how did Desantis run so close in his first Fl Gov run against a total loser for the Dems?
How did Beto get so many votes in TX against Cruz?


11 posted on 08/25/2026 4:17:48 AM PDT by desertsolitaire ("Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach.")
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To: Sirius Lee

right you are
tis basic math

hopefully the pendulum will swing back and common sense will again be in vogue


12 posted on 08/25/2026 4:19:48 AM PDT by SisterK (to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly)
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To: Sirius Lee; SisterK; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
(Because 47% of the people polled represent everything that is wrong with our culture.)

THAT is for certain

James Talarico is selling EVIL to voters




13 posted on 08/25/2026 4:24:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SmokingJoe

Maybe people are finally getting sick of seeing Howdy Doody’s stupid commercials...


14 posted on 08/25/2026 4:25:13 AM PDT by Smittie (Just li <p>k an alien I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: SmokingJoe

I’d like to see our side tell its supporters to say they are voting for the opponent. When you see the Dem ahead 80-20, the poll will be known to be worthless.

It’s sorta like blinding enemy satellites.


15 posted on 08/25/2026 4:26:08 AM PDT by Ken H (FReeper #240 - Dec 05, 1997.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Paxton was always reliably ahead of Talarico. Only a few spiked polls gave any indication otherwise.


16 posted on 08/25/2026 4:26:35 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Technology can industrialize evil.)
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To: Smittie

(Howdy Doody’s stupid commercials...)

😀😃😅😂🤣🤣🤣


17 posted on 08/25/2026 4:27:07 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Lazamataz

Exactly and the FR pearl clutchers dutifully ate it up in their fainting spells over democrat senator Coryn losing in the primaries.


18 posted on 08/25/2026 4:30:57 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: SmokingJoe

Thune doesn’t seem to be spending any Senate Campaign funds. Like he wants to throw the election. It will just be up to Republican turnout.


19 posted on 08/25/2026 4:35:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Thune desperately wants to throw the election, he is a snake in the grass, guy is a RINO traitor.


20 posted on 08/25/2026 4:38:00 AM PDT by Skwor
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