{"id":644305,"date":"2026-07-31T12:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=644305"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:38:12","slug":"democrats-are-salivating-over-new-fox-news-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=644305","title":{"rendered":"Democrats are salivating over new Fox News poll"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Texas Republicans may be in big trouble come the midterms in November,\u00a0according to shocking new poll results from Fox News.<\/p>\n

The Fox News<\/a> poll shows Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico beating Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton by three points.\u00a0While the three points are within the margin of error, they fit alongside a bunch of other data that looks horrible for Republicans.<\/p>\n

For instance, the majority of independent voters (68 percent) back Talarico, as do the majority of Democrats (98 percent). Yet only 89 percent of Republicans back Paxton.<\/p>\n

But it gets worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cTalarico\u2019s advantage in the race grows to 6 points among both extremely motivated and extremely interested voters (53% vs. 47% in each group),\u201d according to Fox News.<\/p>\n

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Democrat James Talarico Leads in Texas Senate Race \u2014 Fox News Poll pic.twitter.com\/C430Q69Cz8<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) July 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In addition, nearly one quarter of so-called \u201cnon-MAGA\u201d Republicans, who are basically anti-Trump Republicans, back Talarico.<\/p>\n

And even though the black community has aired some concerns about Talarico, 87 percent of surveyed blacks in Texas said they\u2019d vote for him over Paxton. Hispanics also appeared to favor Talarico over his GOP opponent.<\/p>\n

The most recent airing of concerns occurred earlier this month at a town hall:<\/p>\n

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#TexasSenate<\/a><\/p>\n

James Talarico is pressed by attendee at Houston town hall on Black voter outreach.<\/p>\n

Attendee received some applause among the crowd. pic.twitter.com\/UMlGTyM22N<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Politics & Poll Tracker \"\ud83d\udce1\" (@PollTracker2024) July 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Paxton\u2019s team has already dismissed the poll results.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only poll that matters is November 3rd,\u201d his senior adviser told the Houston Chronicle<\/a>. \u201cTalarico\u2019s campaign will end up exactly where every Democrat before him has ended up in Texas: a pipe dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the right continues to attack Talarico daily with the hope of eating away at his edge, with the latest attack centering around Talarico\u2019s former fanboy praise of Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n

Case in point:<\/p>\n

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I got the coolest action figure for Christmas!<\/p>\n

Thank you to all the health care superheroes working today. Let\u2019s help by getting vaxxed and boosted! \"\ud83c\udf84\"\"\ud83d\udc89\" pic.twitter.com\/tVWUrE5lyV<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 James Talarico (@jamestalarico) December 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the tweet above from 2021, the Democrat Senate candidate joyously celebrated receiving a Fauci action-figured doll for Christmas. President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign team skewered\u00a0 Talarico over the tweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthony Fauci forced people to stay in their homes, were banned from attending any sort of event, and then made up the \u2018six feet apart\u2019 guideline. And Low-T Democrats like @jamestalarico fawned over him while your grandmother died alone,\u201d the team tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The right has also been bashing Talarico for coming out against including Bible study in school curriculums because it\u2019s so-called \u201cChristian propaganda\u201d:<\/p>\n

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This Godless Talarico buffoon is perhaps the most demonic and disgusting politician to ever run for Office in Texas\u2026 and that\u2019s really an understatement. pic.twitter.com\/mgcmfiQH2a<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rob Schneider \"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\" (@RobSchneider) July 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe last one is maybe the most insidious: It was a new state curriculum that would teach Christian Bible stories as historical fact, as the only truth, to our youngest students,\u201d he said in the clip above. \u201cAnd I mean kindergarten, first graders.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are kids who aren\u2019t able to think for themselves yet. They haven\u2019t formed their own worldviews. And to push propaganda, to push indoctrination on those youngest students is deeply immoral,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Democrats have matched every GOP attack on Talarico by firing back with attacks on Paxton, particularly his character.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor most of the 11 years that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has held statewide office, scandals have followed him,\u201d Houston Public Media<\/a> notes.<\/p>\n

This is true. He was\u00a0indicted by a Collin County grand jury in 2015 (shortly after taking office as AG) on two first-degree felony securities fraud counts and one third-degree felony count for failing to register as a securities adviser.<\/p>\n

In 2010, multiple seniors aides in his attorney general\u2019s office reported him to the FBI alleging he\u2019d abused his office, engaged in bribery, and taken unusual actions to benefit his allies\/friends.<\/p>\n

Paxton was later impeached by the Texas House on allegations of bribery, abuse of public trust, obstruction of justice, disregard of official duty, and more. While he was suspended during the process, the Senate held a trial and ultimately acquitted him on all articles.<\/p>\n

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Texas Republicans may be in big trouble come the midterms in November,\u00a0according to shocking new poll results from Fox News. The Fox News poll shows Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico beating Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton by three points.\u00a0While the three points are within the margin of error, they fit alongside a bunch of other… Continue reading Democrats are salivating over new Fox News poll<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/644306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}