McALLEN — As the general election ramps up, the top of each party’s ticket this week headed to the epicenter of President Donald Trump’s 2024 gains with Latino voters: South Texas. And their opening salvos to voters were markedly different.
Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, held a “Rally in the Valley” at a McAllen brewery Tuesday night with two of the GOP’s key congressional recruits, Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina and Eric Flores, an Army veteran and lawyer from the region. Meanwhile, Democratic nominee James Talarico ended the third day of a “Frontera Tour” 140 miles northwest in Laredo, where he traces his family’s roots, ahead of his own stop in the Rio Grande Valley on Wednesday.
