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Midterm Elections 2026: Texas Emerges as Unlikely Battleground
Democrat James Talarico is locked in a tight race against Republican Ken Paxton for the Senate seat in Texas, a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to office since 1994. NBC’s Ryan Chandler reports for TODAY.
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What the coverage shows
Most outlets frame the midterms as a broad election-night or results story, with live coverage from CNN, National Review, Democracy Now! and the New York Times, while PBS NewsHour and the Guardian focus on what voters need to know about timing, counting and when results may be known. The New York Times is the only outlet here to foreground election security directly, pairing that with pieces on polling, party expectations and how to follow its coverage. Fox News and CNBC instead stress the stakes for Congress and markets, and Newsweek alone highlights DOJ action on election-related crimes.
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