A number of Dallas’s most prominent buildings were lit up on Monday in teal to support the Alzheimer's Foundation of America's (AFA) annual "Light the World in Teal" campaign. However in photographs shared on social media some of the buildings looked blue and platform users jokingly linked this to Tuesday’s midterm election campaign, when the Democrats are hoping to win a Texas Senate seat for the first time since Lloyd Bentsen in 1988. An AFA spokesperson told Newsweek some buildings were lit up in colors other than teal—a blue-green color—because it wasn't in their lighting systems, in which case they used the closest available color.
Polling suggests Democrat James Talarico has a slim lead over Republican rival Ken Paxton, the current Texas attorney general. Winning a Texas Senate seat would be a major victory for the Democrats who are hoping to flip the upper house, a move that would significantly restrict Trump’s freedom of action in the final two years of his second term in the White House. Some of Dallas’s most notable large buildings including Reunion Tower, Bank of America Plaza and Omni Dallas Hotel were illuminated with teal lighting on Monday.
This was in support of the AFA's campaign, an annual event the nonprofit said it expected to beat the world record for "sites all lit in one night for a single cause." However in some photographs shared on social media the lights appeared quite blue, sparking comments about Tuesday’s crunch midterm elections in Texas. On Threads Morgan, a Dallas based Democratic supporter, shared a photograph showing buildings including the Bank of America Plaza, Reunion Tower and Omni Dallas Hotel lit up with teal-blue lighting. They wrote: "Dallas’ skyline is solid blue tonight.
TEXAS LET’S GOOO [face with steam from nose emoji] TIME TO FINALLY FLIP THIS STATE." The post received over 590 shares from other Threads users and was liked more than 8,300 times. On Twitter a Texas-based user called ‘RexValchorum2,’ who shares anti-left wing content, published a photograph showing the Bank of America Plaza and Reunion Tower lit up, adding: "Tomorrow is Election Day. "Dallas skyline today at 5:35 AM.
Very subtle. [Face with rolling eyes emoji]" On Threads another Dallas based user also shared video showing prominent buildings in the city lit up on Monday. They wrote: "Dallas skyline blue & beautiful tonight." Speaking to Newsweek, AFA spokesperson Sandy Silverman said: "We ask sites to light up in the color teal, which is our Alzheimer’s awareness color. We had more than 1,780 sites around the world participate.
Unfortunately, not all sites have the color teal in their lighting systems/gels/filters, so they use the color closest to teal that they have." Newsweek contacted Reunion Tower, Bank of America Plaza and Omni Dallas Hotel for comment on Tuesday via email outside of regular office hours. Texas has been the venue for a bitterly fought Senate race between Paxton, who unseated incumbent Republican Senator John Cornyn in a primary contest, and Democrat Talarico, currently a member of the Texas House of Representatives. An AtlasIntel poll of 1,678 Texan likely voters conducted over October 28 to November 1 gave Talarico a 5.9 percentage point lead, with 51.3 percent of the vote against 45.4 percent for Paxton.
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