James Talarico Will TAKE ON Ken Paxton after Texas Primary Win. Can Dems Finally Win Big In Texas?
Tien Tran joins Erin to discuss the U.S. Senate race in Texas between Ken Paxton and James Talarico.
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@DiscoDashco
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
How is Talarico Schumer’s “puppet” when he doesn’t take AIPAC money? (Rhetorical)
@guillermo_m
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
hopefully this new virus goes away, it will be a chaos if it spreads outs
@NoSacredCowFla
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Is Alyssa ok?
@livalittle13
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Ken's wife is also a scab, just a smaller one
I'm voting for James but I'm worried he will play too nice and not sling mud and people will not get out and vote. We have terrible terrible terrible voter turnout in texas
@livalittle13
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Paxton def writes homoerotic fanfic with trump and himself as the MCs
@Iavorchenceto
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Can you please do a ‘This F-cking Guy’ about Tod Blanche? He’s gotta be a real piece of sh-t.
@TXriversforever
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Hi! Any time people speak like, “oh I can’t get my hopes up” or “he’s going to win anyways” you really encourage people to stay home & not vote. Please don’t speak about my state this way, or any race that people’s lives are on the line 💛
@togetherbychoice
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
😮 dammit. That's scary and I am really glad that you shed.
@GabrielZuniga-z6n
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
I have no faith in my fellow Texans to do the right thing. Texas is a stupid state with stupid people. They like to live miserable. Paxton will win easily and that is going to suck.
@misterk7040
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
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@megsybeth42
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
The Trump appointed Israeli American prosecutor just withdrew criminal charges against an Israeli man who was arrested with a house full of biomedical material. Vials of Ebola and HIV were there.
@lavalamp2280
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
thank you for your comment about paywalls to reliable news sources.
absolutely the writers deserve to be paid for their hard work. the billionaire overlords won't pay them, so us "poors" can't access good journalism
@devinduncan6922
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Get the story right! Yes, Paxton won with 63% but nearly half of Cornyn's supporters stayed home. It's not like 300k decided to vote for Paxton. This in a state where the GOP should not have needed to spend a cent!
@DeeJay-q5j
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Im vegan gimme a holla
@DeeJay-q5j
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
As per say, all wife leaves us… but i like u style
@DeeJay-q5j
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
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@DeeJay-q5j
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Karen w all duo respect,vyour gourgeous. Did intipnright
@s.williamc.
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Greg Abbot likes to brag about rigging elections. All the red states have given Trump their voter rolls the reason is obvious to scrub off democrats so when they show up to vote they get the door slammed in their face.
@karenokeson2705
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Covid-19, anyone??
@HappyCanadian1111
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Your Secretary of Health has been snake capturing at Dr. Oz's place, that was so fun he had to get a poisonous one and fight it today. Meanwhile, ebola shmola
@charlesandres8623
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
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@charlesandres8623
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Thank YEW DOGE for🦠EBOLA🦨MUSK🤑MADA🇺🇸Make America Dead Again🪦
@77zhenry
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Paxton also just pardoned his lawyer buddy that was convicted to a life sentence for pedophilia
@77zhenry
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Talarico didnt post the turkey leg. It wastheTexas dem party. That was an old video from the state fair. He was talking about high prices. Talarico was born & raised in Texas. Like me. I will vote for him for sure
@garrisonkunst3645
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Boy its gonna be crazy when Talarico loses in Nov. Texans would rather elect a corrupt stain like Paxton than a democrat 😂
@violetta-g9j
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Texas breeds some of the best people and many of the worst creeps. Best: Beto O'Rourke, James Talrico, Ann Richards, Lloyd Bentsen… The worst are all too evident: Raymundo Gutierrez and Jesus "Jesse" Ochoa, the murderers of Alex Pretti, Greg Abbott, Paxton and numerous more scum of the Earth.
@iano239
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Irish Catholic dad of four from Dallas. I'm a new Precinct chair for the Democrats. The fight back has begun. Wish us luck.
@jamescampbell9533
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Uh, no. Not with this guy. He’s too far out there.
@pheydenburg
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Come on, everybody knows the opposite of James Earl Jones is Gilbert Godfrey😅
@CatLadyWithaGun
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
I think the ads they’ve already started will rev up the conservative base enough to get the turn out the Republicans need to win.
@rickyspanish928
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Mathew is a Republican lol
@ChrisHenry-og8tj
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
You’re cool. It’s totally a compliment. You are the woman that really smart men want to date. Have fun. Love the fuck that guy. Let’s do another Elon and focus on his guaranteed government $. But spike it on the only reason he did that shit was to extend the $7500 EV credit. Trump fucked him because the oil guys paid him more. Thus the tussle. 😎
@karenstephenson1753
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Unimaginably radical AND a puppet of Chuck Schumer — that's an interesting combination! /j
@PlutoProton
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
"Vote for Ken Paxton – the King of Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Texas!" He doesn't need charisma when he's got that going for him.
@joepermenter7228
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Beto O'dork was a fake Mexican who wanted to come after the guns of the most pro second amendment state in the nation, He had no prayer of winning here.
@jrann2667
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Congo just announced that they will not take American Ebola patients.
@robertofhawthorne7145
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
The Six Genders comes from Trump not understanding what the word cisgender means.
Cisgender became Six Genders and Republicans are not parroting it.
@robertschrader
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
I think Crockett would've been more formidable.
@noreenwineland1713
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
Ken … just concede already
@ElectricLukachu
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
paxton looks like a barely re animated corpse
@margevonmunchingindahausen
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
The Sudanese civil war and the ensuing famine has also been massively impacted by USAID cuts. the tiny amount of money "saved" has all gone into bombing Iranian kids, Trump's cronies and meanwhile millions risk death.
@aasimpasha2041
June 3, 2026 at 11:15 am
OMG Tien was great on How I Met Your Father!!
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