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Could Texas turn blue? Senate race puts nearly 40-year Democratic drought to the test
https://www.khou.com/ ^

Posted on 11/03/2026 6:11:06 PM PST by NKP_Vet

HOUSTON — Could Texas really turn blue? This year’s U.S. Senate race is testing whether Democrats can win a seat the state has kept in Republican hands for nearly four decades. Democrat James Talarico is facing Republican Ken Paxton in a contest that has renewed attention on Democrats’ chances of winning statewide. Texas last elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1988, when Lloyd Bentsen won reelection. A Talarico victory would end that 38-year drought.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2026wipeout; texas; traitors4tedbrown

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To: MayflowerMadam

And Abbott, who has been governor for two terms, is losing by over a million votes.


81 posted on 11/03/2026 7:55:45 PM PST by laconic
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To: chud

Can we blame aliens? The space kind.


82 posted on 11/03/2026 7:56:39 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Angelino97

Amen to that.


83 posted on 11/03/2026 7:57:33 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Longdriver69

I hope you can live with voting for a PEDOPHILE.

A PEDOPHILE!!


84 posted on 11/03/2026 7:59:04 PM PST by CrimsonTidegirl
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To: laconic

Yes. Horrible. He is a doofus, but he’s our doofus.

There has to have been some monkey business going on with ballots. None of this makes any sense.

We have two months for POTUS and the House to declare martial law - LOL!


85 posted on 11/03/2026 8:00:41 PM PST 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: CrimsonTidegirl
Evil, hypocritical, holier than thou insurrectionists obviously prefer a PEDOPHILE to an adulterer. How evil is that??

Adultery was only one item in a long list of things that Ken Paxton did wrong.

Any halfway decent candidate would have beat Talarico.


86 posted on 11/03/2026 8:01:02 PM PST by chud
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To: Codeflier

What they will do is force states to make things appear more affordable by manipulating things like the housing market, health care insurance, energy prices. It will be a shell game. Their answer to the housing market will be rent control and increased mandated “affordable housing”. Their answer to health care costs will be mandated insurance with much higher penalties to those who opt out. Get ready for “Medicare and Medicaid for all.” Their answer to higher food prices will be removing income restrictions from SNAP. Their answer to energy prices will be pushing for “green” energy and banning any decentralized power options.

But where will the money come from? Look in the mirror. I think we will see a national VAT in the next few years.


87 posted on 11/03/2026 8:08:45 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: rbg81

What sane Republican would have voted for that Alfred E Newman lookalike? He was a certified lunatic, who put his head up his ass everytime he opened his mouth, saying some of the strangest garbage I’ve ever heard. Just a creepy little SOB. I refuse to believe any Republican would vote for him. I think the Bushes fixed the race.


88 posted on 11/03/2026 8:11:16 PM PST by NKP_Vet (Catholic-lite Equals Catholic -lite )
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To: NonValueAdded

Trump the toxic turd.


89 posted on 11/03/2026 8:11:38 PM PST by nwrep
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To: NKP_Vet

I’ve been warning about this for years. Texas is not the state everyone thinks it is.

If you are in a red state, shun and chase out liberals.


90 posted on 11/03/2026 8:13:21 PM PST by Celerity
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Fox News called the governor’s race. Abbott lost.
91 posted on 11/03/2026 8:15:30 PM PST by thegagline (If you hate Christians, Vote Talarico. Sic semper tyrannis! Zeldin for Presiden)
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To: laconic

It’s done. Abbott lost. Texas is about to learn a hard lesson that they brought on themselves.


92 posted on 11/03/2026 8:16:44 PM PST by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: thegagline

He also conceded.


93 posted on 11/03/2026 8:17:14 PM PST by TexasGunLover
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To: madison10

I have no idea why people complain about Iran, which certainly needed to be dealt with quickly, while ignoring the billions in Ukraine that is a useless “war.”
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Everyone said at the beginning of the year that we needed to conclude the Iran war quickly or we would lose the midterms.
The war was not concluded quickly. We lost the midterms


94 posted on 11/03/2026 8:24:15 PM PST by ckilmer (`61)
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To: rbg81

YEAH...Talerico winning....something is NOT right...


95 posted on 11/03/2026 8:25:25 PM PST by goodnesswins (Most Congress Critters should be referred to as what they are....LOOTERS)
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To: lastchance
Their answer to energy prices will be pushing for “green” energy

So-called green energy will make things more expensive, not less. But the idiot voters buy the BS because it makes them feel good to "save the planet."

96 posted on 11/03/2026 8:25:27 PM PST by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: goodnesswins

Newsmax just projected Democrats take the senate.


97 posted on 11/03/2026 8:26:35 PM PST by NKP_Vet (Catholic-lite Equals Catholic -lite )
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To: TexasGunLover

Trump should have listened to his own inner voice about not starting another damned Mideast War. That disaster led to this disaster.


98 posted on 11/03/2026 8:27:32 PM PST by laconic
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To: Schatze

You are right. I smell subsidies.


99 posted on 11/03/2026 8:29:19 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Schatze

I know it is not possible but interstate border control would save a lot of states.


100 posted on 11/03/2026 8:30:55 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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