{"id":460415,"date":"2026-10-08T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460415\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:44:07","slug":"trump-calls-for-paxton-talarico-debate-as-texas-senate-race-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460415\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls for Paxton-Talarico debate as Texas Senate race heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ALTBSP5GM5D6LHOGIVXZFIOFEQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">President Donald Trump called for a debate between Texas\u2019s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in the state\u2019s highly competitive Senate race.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WAR37AC7PNB5HINIPNB4HKS4AY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cLadies and Gentlemen, upon information and belief, James TalaFREAKo, who is running for the United States Senate in Texas, is MISSING IN ACTION!\u201d Trump wrote Wednesday night on Truth Social. \u201cHe should immediately report to a Debate Stage against Ken Paxton, who is ready, willing, and able.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump called for a debate between Texas\u2019s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democratic state Rep.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-460415","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\/460415","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=460415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}