I'll be interested in seeing how Wagner does because I flagged this a year ago, back when it was safe R for most prognosticators, as one to watch. The fundamentals always pointed to a competitive race, at the least
Still kind of dumbfounded by why Republicans don't take the threat of Talarico seriously. He's polling like 10x better with indies than Beto and Paxton has way worse favorables than Cruz, in an environment where gas prices have spiked 34%. Also Talarico def has signs lol
Surveys were conducted October 10 and October 14, 2026.
-750 rural Texas likely voters
(margin of error of +/- 3.58%)
-500 Latino Texas likely voters
(margin of error of +/- 4.18%).
NEW: Mike Collins previously suggested hanging U.S. military and political leaders from a helicopter and joked about pushing Pelosi out of a plane. We also uncovered another antisemitic post from a business recently launched by his son-in-law. https://t.co/Ab7qhzYQnW
Given that several of these ethnicities are high income and highly educated I think it’s worth asking more “how did we manage to alienate these people” instead of “how can we even be more a white ethnic party.”
It’s a little sad Dev Patel seemingly wasn’t even in consideration for Bond. MONKEY MAN felt like his audition for Bond the same way LAYER CAKE was for Daniel Craig.