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Republicans just opened the floodgates on spending for Ken Paxton
Politico ^ | 09/11/2026 03:38 PM EDT | Andrew Howard

Posted on 09/11/2026 4:06:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

GOP super PACs have committed more than $40 million to the race over the last week, as the attorney general faces a tight race with Democrat James Talarico.

DALLAS — Texas Republican Ken Paxton is getting a major infusion of financial help in his Senate battle with Democrat James Talarico.

A new super PAC linked to Senate Republican leadership has purchased at least $32 million in airtime to boost the controversial Republican attorney general, according to the tracking service AdImpact. And President Donald Trump’s super PAC threw $10 million into the race last week.

The wave of GOP spending comes as a number of recent polls have shown Paxton slightly trailing Talarico, including a recent AARP poll that Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio’s firm helped conduct.

And it arrives after months of pleading from national Republicans for Trump’s network to spend big to bolster the scandal-plagued candidate the president helped propel to victory in the primary.

At the Republican National Committee’s convention this week in Dallas, Trump said he will continue to visit the state to back Paxton.

“We have to elect Ken Paxton,” Trump said during one of his two convention speeches. “We have to. We...


(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: gopaxton; jamestalarico; kenpaxton; paxton; talarico; talaricoslime

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1 posted on 09/11/2026 4:06:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Guys like Talarico probably look at Mamdani laughing at the names of the dead and thinks, “So what? It’s a celebration, isn’t it?”


2 posted on 09/11/2026 4:08:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is the normal path for most races. Labor Day is the kickoff and the real ads begin now.


3 posted on 09/11/2026 4:12:55 PM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Scandal-plagued” and “controversial.” Thanks, Politico. I didn’t realize he was a bad guy


4 posted on 09/11/2026 4:15:54 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Talarico is stronger than Beto.


5 posted on 09/11/2026 4:18:35 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I thought POLITICO went out of business.


6 posted on 09/11/2026 4:19:55 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: nwrep

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA


7 posted on 09/11/2026 4:25:19 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Free Republic is going to be intolerable during the Republican Presidential primary in 2028.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s right, b*tches.


8 posted on 09/11/2026 4:26:41 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

At the halfway point of the 11th Hour!!


9 posted on 09/11/2026 4:29:22 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: nwrep

“Talarico is stronger than Beto.”

Correct. And Texas has imported the freaks from California to help with the Austin nutcases. Add on top of that, Republicans that sit on their asses on Election Day and you have a perfect storm coming.


10 posted on 09/11/2026 4:31:12 PM PDT by devane617 (Facts Do Not Matter To Those On The Left—It's Their God.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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11 posted on 09/11/2026 4:33:16 PM PDT by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - multi .issue vor in)
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To: nwrep

No, he isn’t.


12 posted on 09/11/2026 4:33:46 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: j.havenfarm
It's extraordinary they describe Paxton as "controversial" but not Talarico. You can make a case they both are. But Talarico is far and above the most controversial with the most bizarre views and statements - but with "reporters" like this, narrative is the agenda, not reporting actual news.

Talarico's Pastor: ‘People in This Church’ Wish Would-Be Trump Assassin ‘Had Been More Successful’

Talarico Said Capitalism Is an ‘Oppressive System’ That Must Be ‘Dismantled’

Talarico brings a touch of Trotsky to the Texas Senate race - Texas Democratic Senate nominee linked capitalism with White supremacy

James Talarico Event Host Joins Protest Coalition With Communist, Socialist Groups

James Talarico Calls the Idea That Christians Are America's Villains 'Spot On'

Talarico’s Gender Mutilation Record Comes Under Fire in Texas Senate Race

James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen

The Talarico Campaign Finally Confirmed This Scandal After Months of Hiding

James Talarico May Have Violated the Very State Voting Laws He’s Accused His GOP Opponent of Breaking: Reports

James Talarico Says Bill Banning ‘Gender-Affirming Health Care to Trans Children’ Is ‘Christofascism’

The ‘TransQueer Latinx’ theologian who ‘continues to inspire’ James Talarico

Will James Talarico Drop His Pedophile-Protecting Political Ally?

James Talarico: "God is not a being."

Talarico Campaign Refuses to Deny He Had Inappropriate Relationships With Other Staffers

Texas Democrat Senate Hopeful James Talarico Refers to Women as ‘Neighbors with a Uterus’

James Talarico's church library features LGBTQ propaganda for children, including pornographic material

‘God Is Queer’: See The Sexually Explicit Books James Talarico’s Church Gives Kids

James Talarico sent a letter to President Biden urging him to lease FEDERAL land, offices, and employees for ABORTION CLINICS, and to ignore/ban state laws.

James Talarico said there are six sexes while opposing ban on men in women’s sports

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This candidate is the "noncontroversial" and "non scandal plagued" candidate in the race per this author.

13 posted on 09/11/2026 4:37:30 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: devane617

Cruz carried the transplants while Beto carried the native Texans.


14 posted on 09/11/2026 4:39:41 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: j.havenfarm
“Scandal-plagued” and “controversial.”

Just like with President Trump's 34 felonies "scandal", Paxton was impeached on the last day of the legislature's session, and none of the allegations of corruption were ever tried in court.

-PJ

15 posted on 09/11/2026 4:42:04 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They might throw a few bucks at the NC race. I’m seeing ads running about 10 to ZERO for Cooper. None for Whatley. Then again the Republican Party just might be funding a Democrat’s campaign


16 posted on 09/11/2026 4:44:30 PM PDT by Swanks
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Cruz carried the transplants while Beto carried the native Texans.

Yep. :raises hand:

If Texas falls to the leftists, it will be because of the native Texans.

17 posted on 09/11/2026 4:47:44 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: nwrep

He’s running a better campaign defining himself and the issues before his opponent had a chance to.

But the reality is...if the reality of who he is and what he stands for (see the post above), and the things he has said were widely known, he’d be lucky to get 40%. 20 years ago he would have been lucky to get 10%.


18 posted on 09/11/2026 4:51:00 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: CatOwner

I wish I could get the ear of these super PACs just one day - see my post above - it would be relatively inexpensive to do a mass printing of each of those articles and mail a copy of them out one by one each day from now to election day to likely registered voters. Also have copies of them printed and have volunteers pass them out at the diners where the old timers hang out. News travels. “This guy said what????!”


19 posted on 09/11/2026 4:55:23 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Abbott’s line should have won it for Paxton, “There will never be Sharia law in Texas.”


20 posted on 09/11/2026 4:57:57 PM PDT by sopo
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