{"id":45867,"date":"2026-03-05T00:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=45867"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:07:22","slug":"why-democrats-are-encouraged-by-the-u-s-senate-primaries-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=45867","title":{"rendered":"Why Democrats Are Encouraged by the U.S. Senate Primaries in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Why Democrats Are Encouraged by the U.S. Senate Primaries in Texas<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Our national political correspondent Shane Goldmacher describes how James Talarico won the Democratic nomination for Senate in Texas. The Republican incumbent, Senator John Cornyn, was forced into a runoff with the state\u2019s attorney general, Ken Paxton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Shane Goldmacher, Gabriel Blanco and James Surdam<\/p>\n<p>March 4, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Why Democrats Are Encouraged by the U.S. Senate Primaries in Texas Our national political correspondent Shane Goldmacher describes how James Talarico won the Democratic nomination for Senate in Texas. The Republican incumbent, Senator John Cornyn, was forced into a runoff with the state\u2019s attorney general, Ken Paxton. By Shane Goldmacher, Gabriel Blanco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[581,11223,23546,1314,1010,811],"class_list":{"0":"post-45867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-democrats","9":"tag-encouraged","10":"tag-primaries","11":"tag-senate","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-u-s"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}