Texas Senate race: Talarico ties Paxton to Epstein files in midterm push

Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is using Ken Paxton's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein as a campaign issue ahead of the November midterms, appearing with an Epstein victim at a Dallas exhibit of DOJ files. This is a domestic political attack line, not a new factual disclosure; its significance lies in the strategic escalation of a personal scandal into a statewide race.