Crossfiled16 outlets · first filed 17 hours ago
James Talarico wins Texas Senate race, flipping seat for Democrats
Democrat James Talarico will defeat Republican Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, CBS News projects, marking a major flip for Democrats that they have long sought in the Lone Star State.
Reuters
What the coverage shows
Most outlets converge on James Talarico’s Texas win as a major Democratic flip, and several frame it as historic or long awaited. CBS News, the Guardian, BBC News and France 24 all foreground the Texas result, while the New York Times and others in the same cluster instead lead with Senate control or other races; Al Jazeera’s Texas item is the only one that also explicitly says Democrats celebrate Talarico’s and Hinojosa’s victories. Fox News and Reason do not cover the Texas race in their extracts, with Fox instead focusing on Georgia and North Carolina and Reason on Supreme Court retirements.
Written by Crossfiled from the 49 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.
How it broke
In this story
Get the 5 stories every outlet is covering, every morning. Free.
One email a day. Unsubscribe in one click. We host no journalism and never sell your address.
More on US Politics
- Democrats win House and Senate control in sweeping victory 19 outlets
- Democrat Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate race, will become first Muslim senator 18 outlets
- Democrat Amy Acton wins Ohio governor's race 12 outlets
- Adam Hamilton wins in Kansas to become state’s first Democrat in Senate since 1932 11 outlets
- Keisha Lance Bottoms makes history as first Black woman elected Georgia governor 9 outlets
- Troy Jackson defeats longtime Maine Sen. Susan Collins 9 outlets