{"id":175721,"date":"2026-02-22T20:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175721\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:04:16","slug":"democratic-rep-crockett-to-visit-el-paso-ahead-of-us-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175721\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Rep. Crockett to visit El Paso ahead of US Senate Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2013 U.S. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, is hosting a \u201cCommunity Conversation\u201d in El Paso on Sunday, February 22.<\/p>\n

An advisory from her campaign indicates that the event will be held at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

Crockett has been touring Texas cities asking voters for their support when it comes to the U.S. Senate primary where she is facing off against state Rep. James Talarico.<\/p>\n

Talarico was in the Sun City on Saturday, February 21 calling for immigration reform.<\/p>\n

Talarico calls for comprehensive immigration reform during visit to El Paso <\/a><\/p>\n

\"Democratic<\/p>\n

Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico speaks to supporters at his campaign event at El Palacio Event Center in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. (Mikala Compton\/Austin American-Statesman via AP)<\/p>\n

The March 3 primary in Texas is the nation\u2019s first big contest of the 2026 midterm elections, and with early voting already underway, Talarico and Crockett are ramping up their bids as some Democrats see increasing opportunity in November\u2019s elections despite not having won a statewide race in Texas in more than 30 years.<\/p>\n

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2013 U.S. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, is hosting a \u201cCommunity Conversation\u201d in El Paso…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,2135,3481,27,1863,2134],"class_list":{"0":"post-175721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news","11":"tag-james-talarico","12":"tag-jasmine-crockett","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-senate","15":"tag-u-s-senate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}