# Talarico wins Texas Senate race, ending decades of Republican dominance

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/talarico-wins-texas-senate-race-ending-decades-of-republican-dominance/
- Published: 2026-11-04T04:03:41+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T06:26:51+00:00
- Original publisher: Al Jazeera (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/4/talarico-wins-texas-senate-race-ending-decades-of-republican-dominance?traffic_source=rss
- Topics: Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- James Talarico wins Texas’s Senate race for the Democrats.
- The victory ends a statewide Democratic drought dating to 1994.
- Gina Hinojosa also wins, becoming Texas’s first Latina governor.

## Summary

James Talarico has won Texas’s Senate race, ending a long period without a Democrat winning statewide office. The result challenges Texas’s status as a Republican stronghold and follows a divisive Republican primary in which Donald Trump backed Ken Paxton over incumbent John Cornyn.

Paxton struggled to unite his party despite more than half a billion dollars in spending, including at least $212m from Elon Musk. Democrats also won the governor’s race: Gina Hinojosa is set to become Texas’s first Latina governor. Her campaign framed the result as a rejection of hardline immigration policies under outgoing Governor Greg Abbott.

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