{"id":24892,"date":"2026-05-31T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/texas-is-in-play-for-democrats-after-paxton-win-beshear\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:15:54","slug":"texas-is-in-play-for-democrats-after-paxton-win-beshear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/texas-is-in-play-for-democrats-after-paxton-win-beshear\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Texas is in play&#039; for Democrats after Paxton win: Beshear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/AP26012669414510-e1770739200685.jpg?w=900\" \/><br \/>Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said Democrats have a chance at locking down a Senate seat in Texas after state Attorney General Ken Paxton\u2019s (R) recent victory in a runoff. \u201cPaxton will now face off against State [Rep.] James Talarico. Democrats have not won a Texas Senate seat, as you know, in more than 30&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5903223-beshear-paxton-texas-senate\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said Democrats have a chance at locking down a Senate seat in Texas after state Attorney General Ken Paxton\u2019s (R) recent victory in a runoff. \u201cPaxton will now face off against State [Rep.] James Talarico. Democrats have not won a Texas Senate seat, as you know, in more than 30&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}