General Election
Open Senate seat after incumbent loses party runoff
Paxton defeated incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the Republican runoff, and Talarico won the Democratic primary. Brown is the Libertarian nominee; four certified write-ins also qualify, while September registered- and likely-voter polls showed Talarico leading Paxton by one to six points.
Eighth-generation Texan
Immigration & Border — Supports comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while expanding legal migration, focusing ICE resources on criminals, gang members, 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 greater transparency and accountability in food and health-care systems, informed consumer choices, and healthier outcomes, with patient well-being placed ahead of corporate profits.
John Thune +7
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Immigration and Border Policy
Federal immigration law sets rules for admission, removal, asylum and naturalization, while Congress controls the statutory framework and funding. The policy stakes include border enforcement, legal entry, detention, asylum processing and pathways to status.
Supports comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while expanding legal migration, focusing ICE resources on criminals, gang members, and traffickers, creating legalization pathways for some undocumented immigrants, modernizing ports of entry, and reducing the asylum backlog.
Talarico for Texas — Immigration & Border SecurityTaxes, Costs, and Economic Opportunity
Congress has authority over federal taxation, spending and interstate and foreign commerce. The live choices include tax rates and credits, trade rules, wages, housing supply, business regulation and programs that affect household costs.
Supports higher taxes on billionaires and corporations, expanded family tax credits, a $15 federal minimum wage, and lower housing, grocery, energy, health-care, and prescription costs through competition, assistance, and regulation; he also supports repealing tariffs.
Talarico for Texas — Taxes & Cost of LivingHealth Care Access and Costs
Federal health programs and the annual appropriations process determine funding and administration for major health and human-services programs. Congress can change eligibility, benefits, prescription-drug rules, insurance standards and federal support for providers.
Supports allowing every American to join Medicare, lowering prescription costs through negotiation and generic competition, protecting Affordable Care Act coverage, reforming prior authorization, supporting rural hospitals, and reducing medical debt.
Talarico for Texas — Health CareCycle-to-date · Federal Election Commission (FEC) — figures change as new reports are filed.
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