{"id":451169,"date":"2026-09-29T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451169\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:20:07","slug":"opinion-democrat-talarico-could-beat-gops-paxton-for-senate-seat-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451169\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Democrat Talarico could beat GOP&#8217;s Paxton for Senate seat in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2QWLGLQVU5CSBF5KBSUBMVTS3U\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">AUSTIN \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/festival.texastribune.org\/schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tribune Festival here<\/a> over the weekend was friendly territory for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico. The First Baptist Church downtown was filled to capacity for a Talarico visit, and if the crowd were any more enthusiastic, you\u2019d have thought it was the 1950s and Elvis Presley had showed up. But it\u2019s hard to blame them; for the first time in a long while, Texas Democrats have persuasive reasons to think their guy will win. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2014 The Texas Tribune Festival here over the weekend was friendly territory for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-451169","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\/451169","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=451169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}