{"id":440484,"date":"2026-09-18T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440484\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T23:48:08","slug":"black-congressional-leaders-endorse-james-talarico-in-texas-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440484\/","title":{"rendered":"Black congressional leaders endorse James Talarico in Texas Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RQCRFIRGRRHJHM4V2ATZ6UELZI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Congressional Black Caucus on Friday endorsed James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas, following a contentious primary riven by accusations of racism.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HEUUA6DOIBHR3PDDI4W765XPYY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cJames Talarico is a true fighter who is committed to advancing the values of the Black community,\u201d Rep. Gregory Meeks, the New York Democrat who chairs the caucus\u2019 political action committee, said in a statement. \u201cTexas\u2019 Black community deserves a leader who will lower costs, stand up to corruption, and advance equity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Congressional Black Caucus on Friday endorsed James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas, following a contentious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-440484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440484","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=440484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}