General Election
Open Texas Senate seat after Cornyn's runoff loss
After Talarico won the Democratic primary, Paxton beat Cornyn in the Republican runoff for the open Class II seat. Brown is the printed Libertarian candidate; four write-ins are certified, and September polls of registered and likely voters gave Talarico 50-44, 46.4-45.2 and 47-46 leads.
Texas state representative
Immigration & Border — Supports comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while expanding legal migration, prioritizing ICE resources for criminals and traffickers, creating legalization pathways for some undocumented immigrants, modernizing ports of entry, and reducing the asylum backlog.
Kamala Harris +7
Texas attorney general
Health Care Costs — Supports increasing transparency in food and health-care systems, addressing pharmaceutical and food-company practices, and promoting healthier outcomes while putting patients’ well-being ahead of corporate profits.
John Thune +7
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Taxes, Costs, and Economic Opportunity
Congress has constitutional authority to tax, spend, borrow, and regulate interstate commerce. The live policy choices include federal tax rates, spending, trade rules, and programs that affect household costs and economic opportunity.
Supports competition, American agriculture and resilient supply chains, and promotes homeownership and housing supply; identifies energy, health care, transportation, taxes, small businesses, Social Security and Medicare as household-affordability concerns.
Avery Ayers for U.S. Senate — Affordability & Texas Kitchen TableImmigration and Border Policy
Federal law governs admission, removal, and naturalization, and Congress has broad authority over immigration policy. The policy stakes are how Congress funds and structures border enforcement, detention, legal entry, and immigration status.
Supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, limiting Customs and Border Protection to ports of entry, ending immigration checkpoints and detention facilities, and allowing entry after criminal-record and disease checks with work authorization from day one.
Ted Brown for U.S. Senate — PlatformHealth Care Access and Costs
Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and Affordable Care Act marketplace protections are federal programs administered through the Department of Health and Human Services, while Medicaid is jointly financed and federally regulated with state flexibility. Congress can change eligibility, benefits, drug-price rules, and federal funding.
Supports increasing transparency in food and health-care systems, addressing pharmaceutical and food-company practices, and promoting healthier outcomes while putting patients’ well-being ahead of corporate profits.
Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate — IssuesCycle-to-date · Federal Election Commission (FEC) — figures change as new reports are filed.
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AyersResearched & verified Sep 26, 2026. Compiled from verified public sources; claims that failed verification are excluded.
