
Could Control of the Senate Hinge on the Race in Texas Between Paxton and Talarico?
Everything is always bigger in the Lone Star State, and that now includes the stakes for control of the Senate.
By JOSH HAMMER
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Mr. Hammer is opinion editor of Newsweek, a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, counsel and policy advisor for the Internet Accountability Project, a syndicated columnist through Creators and a contributing editor for Anchoring Truths. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal and cultural issues, he is a constitutional attorney by training.

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