{"id":368452,"date":"2026-07-10T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368452\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:14:13","slug":"texas-senate-candidate-james-talarico-brings-campaign-to-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368452\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Senate candidate James Talarico brings campaign to El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico<\/a> will be in El Paso for a town hall on Saturday, July 11.<\/p>\n

The community town hall meeting will be from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Plaza Theatre, 125 W Mills Ave.<\/p>\n

\"State<\/p>\n

State Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, speaks to a crowd at the Texas Democratic Convention at the Hilliard Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, on June 26, 2026.<\/p>\n

Talarico and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton will face off in the Nov. 5 General Election for the chance to replace outgoing U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.<\/p>\n

Talarico was previously in El Paso<\/a> as part of his Take Back Texas Tour campaign in February. His key campaign topics are immigration reform, public education and reducing costs for working families.<\/p>\n

As part of the event, there will be a collection for school supplies to support El Paso students as they prepare for the new school year. Attendees are asked to bring supplies including notebooks, pencils, crayons, folders, backpacks, or other classroom essentials.<\/p>\n

People are asked to RSVP online to attend the event at elpasodemocrats.com<\/a>. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

More: Paxton blasts Talarico over ‘transplant’ jab tied to military family<\/a><\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Cort\u00e9s Gonz\u00e1lez may be reached at 915-546-6150;\u00a0mcortes@elpasotimes.com; @eptmaria.bsky.social on Bluesky,\u00a0and @eptmariacg on TikTok.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Texas Senate candidate James Talarico brings campaign to El Paso<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico will be in El Paso for a town hall on Saturday, July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,79427,2135,3309,1967,24903,2134],"class_list":["post-368452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-immigration-reform","tag-james-talarico","tag-john-cornyn","tag-ken-paxton","tag-town-hall-meeting","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368452","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=368452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}