# ‘We just took back Texas,’ James Talarico says after flipping Senate seat

https://mins.news/en/video/128954

- The Associated Press, 2026-11-04 11:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-HDVgRIaOs

> Democrat James Talarico defeated Republican Ken Paxton to win a U.S. Senate seat in Texas, ending more than 30 years without a statewide Democratic victory. In Austin, he told cheering supporters his campaign was ushering in a “politics of love.”

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