{"id":152723,"date":"2025-09-14T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=152723"},"modified":"2025-09-14T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:04:44","slug":"a-democrat-in-texas-thinks-faith-and-honesty-can-win-a-senate-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=152723","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Democrat in Texas Thinks Faith and Honesty Can Win a Senate Campaign&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/09\/us\/politics\/talarico-texas-senate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;Election after election, Democrats have raised the necessary money, gotten the needed attention and tried to win a Senate seat in Texas. They\u2019ve&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/24\/us\/politics\/ted-cruz-colin-allred-texas-senate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talked football<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/19\/us\/politics\/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chronicled their journeys<\/a>&nbsp;across the vast state,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/23\/us\/politics\/mj-hegar-cornyn-senate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highlighted their military heroism<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 and failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Now James Talarico, a young Democratic state representative and Presbyterian seminarian, is taking a new tack, unafraid to talk with anyone who will listen about his deep Christian faith and how it informs his liberal politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">On Tuesday, Mr. Talarico officially joined the race for the seat currently held by Senator John Cornyn, entering a Democratic primary that already includes the former congressman and former N.F.L. linebacker Colin Allred \u2014 who unsuccessfully tried to unseat Senator Ted Cruz last year \u2014 and a former astronaut&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s been 10 years of this kind of Trumpian politics, politics as blood sport, politics as professional wrestling,\u201d Mr. Talarico said. \u201cThe country is ready for something different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The 36-year-old former public school teacher is pursuing what is likely to be an uphill campaign. Mr. Allred is far better known, and the field may also include another former congressman, Beto O\u2019Rourke, perhaps the most famous Democrat in the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;Election after election, Democrats have raised the necessary money, gotten the needed attention and tried to win a Senate seat in Texas. They\u2019ve&nbsp;talked football,&nbsp;chronicled their journeys&nbsp;across the vast state,&nbsp;highlighted their military heroism&nbsp;\u2014 and failed. Now James Talarico, a young Democratic state representative and Presbyterian seminarian, is taking a new tack, unafraid to talk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152724,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152723\/revisions\/152724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}