Texas State Rep. James Talarico raised over $6 million for his 2026 Senate campaign, emerging as the clear Democratic front-runner less than a month after launching his bid.
Talarico faces a steep uphill battle, with Texas having taken a sharp right turn over the past two elections. But the explosion in cash shows Democrats are bullish on his chances, vastly outpacing his Democratic predecessors. In the last cycle, then-Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) took two months to reach $6 million, while fundraising juggernaut Beto O’Rourke took nine months to reach the total in 2018.
“We’re underdogs in this fight against billionaire mega-donors and their puppet politicians, but more than one hundred thousand people have answered the call to build a new kind of politics,” Talarico said in
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