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It’s tough. Like, if Democrats actually have a non-zero chance to win statewide, this will prove it: this election cycle is wildly anti-Republican, Talarico was grown in a lab to have cross-aisle appeal, and Paxton is one of the most loathsome candidates to anyone who isn’t a full-on cultist possible. If Dem’s can’t win beat Paxton, they should give up on being able to win statewide in Texas, period.
All that is to say that Paxton winning would be a benefit to Talarico, but the risk/reward is so grim on that. Is Paxton the best chance tor Dems? Yes. But if it turns out that he is the “best chance” at something that it turns out we had a zero percent chance of pulling off, we’re winding up with one of the worst people in politics today in the Senate.