{"id":446372,"date":"2026-09-24T16:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446372\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:04:33","slug":"paxton-seizes-on-talarico-drag-queen-praise-in-texas-us-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446372\/","title":{"rendered":"Paxton seizes on Talarico drag queen praise in Texas US Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 24, 2026, 9:02 a.m. MT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton is ramping up attacks with less than six weeks to go before the General Election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Paxton&#8217;s campaign released a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KenPaxtonTX\/status\/2102446137034547482?s=20\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">new digital ad<\/a> Tuesday, Sept. 22, entitled &#8220;Meet Alyssa Edwards.&#8221; The ad comes after a video showed Democrat James Talarico, Paxton&#8217;s General Election foe, naming Edwards as his favorite Texas drag queen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Paxton&#8217;s camp accuses Edwards, also known as Justin Johnson, when not performing, of &#8220;not only provocatively dancing in front of children, but also teaching and encouraging young children to dance in the same manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 24, 2026, 9:02 a.m. MT Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton is ramping up attacks with less&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[203,138,140,139,103227,677,678,686,213,687,113344,221,217,219,220,212,688,3848,36],"class_list":["post-446372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-accessmetered","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-sourceel-paso-times","tag-sstsnewspoliticselections","tag-sstsnelections","tag-tagcampaigns-elections","tag-tagdemocratic-party","tag-taggovernment","tag-tagjames-talarico","tag-taglegislative-branch","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagpeople-society","tag-tagpolitics","tag-tagrepublican-party","tag-tagtexas","tag-tagu-s-senate","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446372","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=446372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}