Trump won this reliably red state by double digits. Now a deadlocked race is bringing him back
LUBBOCK, Texas — President Donald Trump is heading back to Texas in the final stretch of the midterm campaign in an attempt to rally Republican voters in a too-close-for-comfort Senate...
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LUBBOCK, Texas — President Donald Trump is heading back to Texas in the final stretch of the midterm campaign in an attempt to rally Republican voters in a too-close-for-comfort Senate race. Trump will campaign in Corpus Christi on Tuesday morning before heading to Lubbock, deep in West Texas, alongside Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton. The two-stop visit comes exactly one week before Election Day and with early voting already underway. And Republicans are confronting an unusually competitive Senate contest in a longtime red-stronghold state that Trump carried by nearly 14 percentage points just two years ago. A new Fox News poll shows the closely-watched race against Democrat State Rep. James Talarico in a deadlock. TEXAS VOTERS HAVE PLENTY TO SAY ABOUT WHETHER LONE STAR STATE COULD TURN BLUE Tuesday’s stops mark Trump’s fourth visit to the Lone Star State since Labor Day. The president spent two days in Dallas in early September for the GOP’s first-ever midterm convention. He was back in Texas on Oct. 1 for an event at the Peterbilt truck manufacturing plant in Denton, then returned six days later for a campaign rally in San Antonio with Paxton. A Fox News poll released Wednesday found Paxton, the state attorney general and a MAGA firebrand, and Talarico tied at 49% among likely voters in the race to replace retiring Sen. John Cornyn. Last month, Talarico held a two-point edge over Paxton, 51%-49%. The showdown between Paxton, who downed Cornyn earlier this year in a contentious GOP primary battle that went into overtime, and Talarico, a former public school teacher and state lawmaker, is looking to end Democrats’ more than 30-year statewide losing streak in Texas. And the face-off is one of roughly a dozen Senate contests that will determine if the GOP holds on to its slim Senate majority. MEET THE VOTERS WHO COULD BREAK THE GOP’S DECADESLONG GRIP ON A REPUBLICAN STRONGHOLD Trump's visit will put both sides of the Senate fight in Lubbock on the same day. Tal…