{"id":483037,"date":"2026-11-01T08:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T08:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/483037\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T08:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T08:38:58","slug":"early-voting-texas-2026-final-day-of-early-voting-ends-in-texas-midterms-as-harris-county-sets-record-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/483037\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting Texas 2026: Final day of early voting ends in Texas midterms as Harris County sets record numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Polls show a tight race between Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, making it the nation&#8217;s most expensive race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to campaign finance reports, Talarico&#8217;s campaign has raised more than six-and-a-half times what Paxton raised. Most of Talarico&#8217;s money comes from small-dollar donors giving less than $200 at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/a2026-election-tx-senate.launch.studioshare.wds.io\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tap to view the Senate campaign finance by the numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Most of it comes from outside Texas, while most of Paxton&#8217;s contributors are in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Another interesting number is how much outside groups, like Super PACs, are spending on the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">As of Monday, they&#8217;ve spent $300 million to support Paxton, and $80 million has gone to Talarico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Essentially, those outside groups have spent much more on Paxton. In fact, the largest number in all the data is the money spent by those Super PACs against Talarico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">These numbers are expected to rise as we get closer to Election Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polls show a tight race between Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democratic state Rep. James Talarico,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[162605,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-483037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-162605","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483037","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=483037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}