Trump and Talarico Hold Competing Texas Rallies

Donald Trump campaigned in Texas on Tuesday for Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton, holding a rally in Corpus Christi before a scheduled evening appearance in Lubbock, where Democratic nominee James Talarico also held a rally. The events came a week before Texas voters were due to choose a U.S. senator on November 3. Trump’s Corpus Christi rally took place earlier in the day. His Lubbock event was scheduled at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, alongside Paxton, while Talarico’s campaign arranged a separate gathering at the Fiesta Center, less than three miles away. Talarico’s campaign had moved the event from the Texas Tech campus to the larger venue and planned shuttles from the original site. The Senate contest between Paxton, the state attorney general, and Talarico, an Austin state representative, was described in the reports as close. Polls varied by field dates and surveyed populations. A Fox News poll of 1,398 likely voters surveyed from October 15 to 19 found the candidates tied at 49 percent each. Other surveys cited in the reports showed Talarico ahead, including a YouGov poll of registered voters and several polls of likely voters. At the Corpus Christi event,...