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Worried optimism was the prevailing mood Monday at a Dallas Labor Day rally where a few hundred Democrats gathered at Lofty Spaces to assess Senate candidate James Talarico's chances against Republican Ken Paxton.
A Senate race, in plain terms, is statewide: the winner represents all of Texas in Washington, not a single district. The energy in the room ran confident on the surface, but the nerves underneath told a different story.
Ellen, a retired nurse who sometimes attends protests in a Statue of Liberty costume, said she felt good about Talarico and did not believe Texans would back Paxton, whom she described as a criminal, cheat, and adulterer.
When a reporter noted that Paxton, the current state attorney general, had already won statewide elections twice, she smiled and said: "That's the problem." The Crockett question Rep.
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