There are distinct differences between the two senatorial campaigns in Texas. These have become clear over the past several days. When the Republicans want an embarrassing story about James Talarico, they have to make one up.
When the Democrats want an embarrassing story about Ken Paxton, all they have to do is wait for the videos to come through. From The Wall Street Journal: Paxton's candidacy is completely a creature of the White House political operation. The president got incumbent John Cornyn stuck in his apparently bottomless craw and went all-in on Paxton in the Republican primary, even though, according to the WSJ, some of the president's people warned him that Paxton was a big bag of unredeemable sin.
But the president plowed ahead and managed to get Paxton the nomination, after which Paxton immediately fell behind Talarico in most polls and he has resolutely stayed there for the entire campaign. Speaking of which, the Lexington Herald-Leader took a deep dive into the Kentucky ratfcker who was behind the idiotic story about Talarico's being flown to a mental-health clinic in Ohio. There's your conservative "influencer" right there.
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