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Putting Paxton’s primary run-off victory in perspective, he got less than 886 thousand votes, compared to more than a million votes that Jame Talarico got in his Democratic primary. Adam Wren and Irie Sentner write in “James Talarico’s theory of victory in Texas” that “Recent internal polling from a pro-Talarico PAC shows the Democrat has a 7-point lead against Paxton…But Talarico faces a Texas-sized challenge to finally deliver on Democrats’ long-held fantasy of flipping the state, just two ...