Talarico Launches $25 Million Black Voter Push in Texas Senate Race
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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 28
Talarico Launches $25 Million Black Voter Push in Texas Senate Race
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 28
Summary
$25 million is being earmarked by James Talarico’s campaign for Black voter outreach, alongside a new turnout operation and hires of Black-owned media firms and consultants.
The push targets a central weakness for Texas Democrats: Talarico now polls strongly with Black voters, but advisers say he still needs much higher Black turnout to have any chance statewide.
That effort follows a bruising primary in which many Black voters backed Jasmine Crockett, though interviews in Houston suggest resistance has eased and support is consolidating largely around opposition to Republican Ken Paxton.
Texas has about 2.7 million Black voters, the most of any state, making communities in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and East Texas critical to a race Democrats have not won statewide in decades.