{"id":446826,"date":"2026-09-25T00:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446826\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T00:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:44:11","slug":"in-texas-talarico-pitches-a-fox-news-debate-as-paxton-stays-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446826\/","title":{"rendered":"In Texas, Talarico pitches a Fox News debate as Paxton stays silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Q5MV2SCQXZGY7F53CQTZGEPCLI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico challenged Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday to a debate on Fox News, which he dubbed Paxton\u2019s \u201csafe space.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"47AGOT3TTNEOPJ2OOXAERL22DI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Talarico has challenged Paxton to a number of debates hosted by numerous news networks for months, but Paxton has yet to agree to any. Paxton\u2019s campaign initially said it would be willing to debate Talarico so long as the moderators were neutral. But in the weeks since, it has been silent on future debates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico challenged Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday to a debate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-446826","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\/446826","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=446826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}