Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico cast his ballot near his Austin home on Friday, reveling in a surge of early voter turnout that was reported across much of\u00a0Texas this week.<\/p>\n
Through the first four days of voting, more than 170,000 people had voted in Travis County, a 50% increase from the last midterm election in 2022. Statewide, nearly 3 million people had already voted going into Friday, according to the Secretary of State’s office.<\/p>\n
\u201cReally excited that Texans are getting out there,\u201d Talarico said just after he exited\u00a0the polls with his mother, Tamara Causey, and girlfriend, Brianna Menard, by his side.<\/p>\n
While\u00a0the result of those\u00a0early votes won’t be known until Election Day, Talarico said he\u2019s confident that Texans are going to send him to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to shock the nation and shock the world when we take back Texas,\u201d Talarico said.\u00a0Democrats haven’t wan a statewide office in Texas in 32 years.<\/p>\n
He and Republican candidate Ken Paxton are crisscrossing the state trying to turn out voters during early voting, which runs through Oct. 30. Election Day is Nov. 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During a campaign stop in Conroe earlier this week, Paxton told supporters that he\u2019s confident there are more Republicans than Democrats in Texas, but it’s about making sure they all get out to vote.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need every Republican, and we will win if we do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Paxton was in South Texas on Friday, campaigning in Laredo and then into San Antonio. After voting, Talarico planned to attend a campaign event in Temple, then hold a rally near the University of Texas at Austin\u00a0later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico cast his ballot near his Austin home on Friday, reveling in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-474768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474768","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=474768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}