A new poll shows Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico leading Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ® by 5 points over a month before the November midterm elections.

The Texas Public Opinion Research (TPOR) poll released Friday showed Talarico with 49 percent support from voters and Paxton with 44 percent support, with 3 percent saying they are undecided. This new poll is the second in a monthly series of polling results released by TPOR. Last month’s poll showed Talarico’s ahead by 6 points, 48-42.

Independent voters favor Talarico by double digits, 58-26, with 5 percent who say they are undecided. Paxton holds the lead among white voters and voters 55 years and above. Talarico leads among Latino voters, Black voters, voters under 55, college-educated voters, men and women, the poll stated.

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    6 hours ago

    I think “we will actually represent you instead of billionaires and Israel” is a better message. See: the wild success of Mamdani. But for $ome reason the democrat$ ju$t can’t $eem to manage that.

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        1 hour ago

        Yes it absolutely does. So many people don’t bother to vote because they see the options as two sides of the same coin.