{"id":465240,"date":"2026-10-14T00:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465240\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:18:09","slug":"country-singer-kacey-musgraves-feuds-with-kristi-noem-over-texas-senate-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465240\/","title":{"rendered":"Country singer Kacey Musgraves feuds with Kristi Noem over Texas Senate endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and country singer Kacey Musgraves traded jabs on the social media platform, X, about the <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/well-never-forgive-you-president-trump-acknowledges-democratic-james-talarico-gains-in-texas-senate-race-republican-gop-ken-paxton-2026-midterm-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">upcoming Senate race in Texas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico attended one of Musgraves\u2019 concerts. She shared pictures on social media of the two of them smiling together at the concert.<\/p>\n<p>Noem responded in a post that said, \u201cI\u2019ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day,\u201d referencing another country music singer. \u201cAnd if I\u2019m choosin\u2019 Texas, I\u2019ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ella Langley\u2019s song \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d has been topping charts for the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>Musgraves responded to Noem and said \u201cI don\u2019t think you have a dog in this fight, but if you did you would have shot it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reference was to Noem saying she killed her 14-month-old dog in her book published in 2024 titled \u201cNo Going Back.\u201d She described the dog as dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Langley appeared to untag herself from Noem\u2019s post, according to The Hill newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Talarico are facing each other in the upcoming Senate race which is very close, according to polls.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/president-trump-calls-for-debate-in-texass-us-senate-race-republican-ken-paxton-democrat-james-talarico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">called for a debate between Talarico and Paxton<\/a>, even though Talarico has agreed to do a debate but Paxton has not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and country singer Kacey Musgraves traded jabs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-465240","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\/465240","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=465240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}