Crossfiled13 outlets · filed 3 November 2026
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.
Associated Press
What the coverage shows
The coverage converges on Democrats winning in Texas, but the outlets emphasize different races within that broader result. The Hill centers on the former Tony Gonzales House seat, CBS News runs two separate stories, one on Bobby Pulido in South Texas and one on Katy Padilla Stout in Gonzales’s old district, while PBS NewsHour frames the day as a pair of historic statewide flips. Fox News is the outlier, focusing on James Talarico and Ken Paxton rather than the House seat named in the group label.
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