Live Results: Texas Senate midterm election
Summary
Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico are competing for Texas’s U.S. Senate seat in the 2026 midterm election. Recent polls cited in the article show Paxton trailing Talarico; no Democrat has won a statewide Texas race since 1994.Key Facts
- Paxton is Texas’s three-term attorney general.
- The Texas House impeached Paxton in 2023, and the state Senate acquitted him.
- With President Donald Trump’s endorsement, Paxton defeated Sen. John Cornyn in a May primary runoff.
- Cornyn became the first Texas senator to lose renomination since 1970.
- Talarico is a state representative from the Austin suburbs and a former middle school teacher and seminarian.
- Talarico won the March Democratic primary outright, defeating Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
- Talarico’s campaign has focused on faith, public schools and the cost of living.
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