Talarico Leads Paxton by 6 Points in Texas Senate Poll as Hinojosa Tops Abbott by 4
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 3
Talarico Leads Paxton by 6 Points in Texas Senate Poll as Hinojosa Tops Abbott by 4
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 3
Summary
A New York Times/Siena poll found Democrat James Talarico, 37, leading Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton by 6 points in Texas’s U.S. Senate race.
The survey, conducted Sept. 21-30, added to signs of Democratic strength after a mid-September ReconMR/Siena Research Institute poll showed Gina Hinojosa 4 points ahead of Gov. Greg Abbott.
Those numbers hint at a possible statewide Democratic breakthrough in Texas, where the party has not won a statewide race in 32 years.
Texas pollsters still caution against overreading the leads, saying repeated Democratic disappointments in the state have bred deep skepticism despite recent trends.