AI Ads and Party Rifts Hit Texas Senate Race
Friday, June 26, 2026 · 7 min
James Talarico and Ken Paxton face a general-election race shaped by AI attack ads, post-primary holdouts John Cornyn and Jasmine Crockett, and Democrats’ Corpus Christi convention push to turn Texas into a 2026 battleground.
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James Talarico and Ken Paxton face a general-election race shaped by AI attack ads, post-primary holdouts John Cornyn and Jasmine Crockett, and Democrats’ Corpus Christi convention push to turn Texas into a 2026 battleground.
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