Crossfiled10 outlets · filed 3 November 2026
James Talarico becomes first Democrat to win Texas Senate seat since 1988
"This wasn't just a tsunami, not just a referendum, but this was a bloodbath," one expert told the BBC on Democrats' historic wins in Texas.
Associated Press
What the coverage shows
Most outlets converge on Talarico’s win as a historic Democratic flip in Texas, usually pairing it with the idea that it ends a decades-long statewide drought and, in several cases, naming Ken Paxton as the defeated Republican. BBC News, CBS News, NBC News, PBS NewsHour, Axios, AP and The Hill all foreground the historic milestone, while CBS News, PBS and NBC also link it with Gina Hinojosa’s gubernatorial win. Fox News frames the result as a rebuke to Trump’s backing of Paxton, and Reason alone casts it in more ideological, slogan-like terms.
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