{"id":460041,"date":"2026-10-08T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460041\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:20:10","slug":"how-the-texas-senate-race-impacts-balance-of-power-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460041\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Texas Senate race impacts balance of power in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump visited Texas for the second time in a week, urging voters to support Republicans in the midterms as a competitive Senate race and low approval ratings pose challenges.<\/p>\n

\"Rachel<\/a>WASHINGTON \u2014<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump returned to Texas for the second time in less than a week, rallying voters to support Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections on Nov. 3. <\/p>\n

The Senate race in Texas is highly competitive, with Republican and former Attorney General Ken Paxton<\/a> facing off against Democrat James Talarico<\/a>. A win for Talarico could have a major impact on the policies the Trump administration is trying to carry out. <\/p>\n

“It’s basically one vote. It’s so important. Forget about ‘for Texas,’ it’s still just one vote. It’s a killer in Congress because we have a very close majority. We can’t let that happen,” Trump said. <\/p>\n

The president is on the road for a 32-day campaign blitz, but his efforts come amid challenges, including the Iran war in its seventh month, rising gas prices, and a rocky approval rating. <\/p>\n

A recent NBC News poll<\/a> found that 39% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing, while 59% disapprove. The same poll showed that 52% of Americans prefer a Congress controlled by Democrats, while 43% want Republicans to hold the balance of power. <\/p>\n

Trump is scheduled to continue campaigning this weekend, with multiple reports indicating he will host another rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Keep watching for the latest from the Washington News Bureau:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump visited Texas for the second time in a week, urging voters to support Republicans in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36051,41019,157350,27044,2671,2133,409,157351,75195,1967,20114,10470,3311,7678,9193,2424,13338,27,29,28,72217,13602,2558,157352,157353,3860,11030,25104],"class_list":["post-460041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-americans","tag-balance","tag-balance-of-power","tag-clarksville","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-election","tag-get-the-facts-data-team","tag-james-talerico","tag-ken-paxton","tag-midterms","tag-power","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-president-trump","tag-rally","tag-republicans","tag-talarico","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-race","tag-texas-senate-race","tag-trump","tag-upcoming-election","tag-upcoming-midterm-election","tag-vote","tag-white-house","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460041","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=460041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}