Country music legend Willie Nelson has endorsed Texas state Rep. James Talarico in his campaign for the U.S. Senate, adding another high-profile name to the Democrat\u2019s list of supporters ahead of the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n
Nelson, a longtime Texas musician and political activist, shared his support for Talarico in a campaign video posted by Team Talarico on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve gotten to know James Talarico,\u201d Nelson said in the video. \u201cHe\u2019s a good man, who will be a good senator for the state of Texas. Please vote and vote for James Talarico.\u201d<\/p>\n
The endorsement adds to Talarico\u2019s growing support from prominent musicians. The Houston Chronicle reported that Nelson and Talarico were photographed together backstage at Nelson\u2019s Fourth of July picnic in Austin earlier this year. <\/p>\n
Talarico, a Democratic state representative, is seeking a seat in the U.S. Senate as Texas voters prepare for the November election. Nelson\u2019s endorsement gives the campaign support from one of the state\u2019s most recognizable cultural figures.<\/p>\n
Nelson has a long history of political involvement and has previously supported Democratic candidates. His backing comes as Talarico works to build support across Texas ahead of the election.<\/p>\n
The endorsement was shared through Talarico\u2019s campaign social media account. Nelson\u2019s message urged Texans to vote for the state representative in the upcoming Senate race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country music legend Willie Nelson has endorsed Texas state Rep. James Talarico in his campaign for the U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-463123","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\/463123","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=463123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}