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Vance Stumps for Paxton in Texas US Senate Race

Talarico has raised about six dollars and fifty cents for every dollar Paxton has raised, FEC data through October fourteenth shows; Texas still looks tied.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentVice President JD Vance campaigned for Republican Ken Paxton in Texas on Thursday, going after Democrat James Talarico on energy policy and transgender issues.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWith us is a source familiar with the matter, speaking from a parking garage. Why a garage?

  3. Zbigniew Okonkwo-ReyesBecause the echo hides my voice. I've been told the race is tight, and I can't say by whom. A gentleman near the elevator.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's tight. Fox News had them tied at forty-nine percent each. That's published.

  5. Zbigniew Okonkwo-ReyesThen someone leaked it before me. I've been told, by a person in a vest, that Democrats haven't won statewide in Texas since nineteen ninety-four.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNewsweek printed that. Did the vest also tell you Talarico raised one hundred forty-six point three million dollars, to Paxton's twenty-two point three?

  7. Zbigniew Okonkwo-ReyesI was holding that back. I've been told, by the ticket machine, that the money is the whole story. Here is my stub.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt says level three, six dollars.

  9. Zbigniew Okonkwo-ReyesThat's the code. Nobody decodes it but me.

  10. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentPaxton called Talarico the most radical Democrat ever to run statewide. Talarico's team says Vance came to cover for Paxton.

  11. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWhich side did the ticket machine take?

  12. Zbigniew Okonkwo-ReyesIt won't say. It only wants validation.

  13. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRating: four out of five anonymous sources. He's anonymous and he's paying six dollars.

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  1. DOJ sues over Alaska results; Amex cuts 5% of staff · Axios
  2. Talarico leans into rivalry with Elon Musk in Texas Senate race · The New York Times
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