Our elitist media love spreading the buzz when First Lady Melania Trump goes "missing" for a few weeks, but they haven't noticed Texas Democrat James Talarico vanishing for 12 days in the closing weeks of his Senate campaign. As of this writing, Talarico has no campaign events scheduled before Election Day (save a CNN town hall).

To be fair, the network newscasts have largely ignored all the candidates, but over the last few weeks, they've repeatedly pounded away at Talarico's Republican opponent, Ken Paxton. On Sept. 17, "CBS Mornings" hammered Paxton for a woman's death due to the "very restrictive" abortion laws in Texas. CBS reporter Jericka Duncan turned to the dead woman's aunt and asked what she would say to Paxton, and she said, "Go to Hell. He killed my niece!"

Was this a news story, or a mudslinging campaign commercial? It's hard to tell during a fall campaign.

Then the networks started touting leaked audio of Paxton complaining about President Donald Trump. On Sept. 30,........

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