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DAVID MARCUS: In Dallas, voters weigh two Senate primaries and now, a war

Texas voters celebrating regime leader's demise while discussing competitive races between Cornyn-Paxton and Crockett-Talarico

By David Marcus Fox News

Published March 1, 2026 10:32am EST

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DALLAS – It was almost the perfect microcosm for current American politics when I met Lizbeth, a lovely young Latina woman who had spent 10 minutes chanting along at the wrong rally. 

She thought was attending an anti-Trump event that I had also come to cover, but instead there was a small group of mostly Iranians yelling "No Mullahs, No Shahs!" in support of dissident leader Maryam Rajavi, and for a while, Lizbeth just joined in.

It was easy to sense in Dallas, just by talking to people, that our strikes on Iran were overshadowing what had been a pair of U.S. Senate primaries and capturing not just the imagination of Texas but of the nation.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton believed that he could win out against longtime Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, even without President Donald Trump's endorsement.  (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images; Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

I met John and Jill,........

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