{"id":467982,"date":"2026-10-16T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467982\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:44:09","slug":"democrats-feel-bullish-about-texas-senate-race-as-trump-campaigns-in-states-he-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467982\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats feel bullish about Texas Senate race as Trump campaigns in states he won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">On the Friday politics roundtable, Here &amp; Now&#8217;s Scott Tong and Peter O&#8217;Dowd ask Texas-based politics reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/lauren-mcgaughy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren McGaughy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statenews.org\/people\/karen-kasler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karen Kasler<\/a> of the Ohio Statehouse News Bureau to weigh in on Democrat James Talarico&#8217;s big cash haul this week in the final stretch of his Senate race in Texas against Republican Ken Paxton, and why President Trump held a rally this week in Youngstown, Ohio, a state which he won by 11 points in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment airs on October 16, 2026. Audio will be available after the broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the Friday politics roundtable, Here &amp; Now&#8217;s Scott Tong and Peter O&#8217;Dowd ask Texas-based politics reporter Lauren&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-467982","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\/467982","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=467982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}