Can ‘Low-T’ Talarico attacks work? Ask Tim Walz

Published June 5, 2026 7:00am ET



Democrats got the Texas Senate race they wanted with James Talarico facing Attorney General Ken Paxton, but Republicans want to remind them of the old saying, “Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.”

The GOP has immediately and almost joyfully gone negative against Talarico, in an attempt to define him as someone culturally out of step with — and maybe a little too weird for — Texas.

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