{"id":454519,"date":"2026-10-02T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454519\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:02:07","slug":"talarico-paxton-launch-dueling-ads-amid-heated-senate-race-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454519\/","title":{"rendered":"Talarico, Paxton launch dueling ads amid heated Senate race in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"I3B4ZPNE2ZF6HEFV6DJFUSKOWE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Texas\u2019s Senate race has been inundated with bitter character attacks against the two candidates. Both addressed them in competing ads Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"52DUHK7KMFC47IMULKES4WLIEM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">State Rep. James Talarico (D) launched a new ad seeking to debunk right-wing claims about his stances in a direct-to-camera address. He criticizes his Republican opponent, state Attorney General Ken Paxton, for using AI-generated videos \u201clying about my record.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas\u2019s Senate race has been inundated with bitter character attacks against the two candidates. Both addressed them in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-454519","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\/454519","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=454519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}