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Texas’ Senate race is tightening — so don’t let James Talarico hide his lefty lunacy

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The race for control of the US Senate is a dead heat.

Conventional wisdom suggests the contests in swingy states like Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia could prove decisive — and they might.

But it’s possible that the fate of the chamber known as the “world’s greatest deliberative body” will come down to a state not usually considered all that swingy: Texas.

Everything’s always bigger in Texas, and that now includes the stakes for Senate control.

For over a decade, Democrats have touted the purported inevitability of Texas turning blue.

“Demographics is destiny,” Democrats bellowed, taunting Republicans by pointing to the state’s burgeoning Hispanic population.

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That argument seemed to fade in 2020, when President Donald Trump made historic gains in Texas’ heavily Hispanic Rio Grande Valley region.

And if the triumphalist chest-thumping withered in 2020, then it really died in 2024, when Trump won about one-fifth of black men and nearly half of all Hispanics nationally.

The polling average in the Lone Star State’s Senate showdown shows a marginal lead for Democratic challenger James Talarico,........

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