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Texas Senate candidate's new ad calls Elon Musk's $190M push an attempt to "buy" a senator

Talarico's video says "Texas is not for sale" as he leads Ken Paxton by 3 percentage points in a polling average

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Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico’s campaign released a new ad on Thursday accusing SpaceX CEO Elon Musk of trying to buy a U.S. Senate seat for Republican nominee Ken Paxton, according to CNBC. The video, posted on the campaign’s account on X $TWTR, tells Musk that “Texas is not for sale.”

The narrator says a single set of super PACs finances the bulk of the attack ads aimed at Talarico, and that Musk........

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