A few days before he won the race to be the Texas GOP’s candidate for U.S. Senate, Ken Paxton tried to call an ad-spend truce with his runoff opponent, the four-term incumbent John Cornyn. Ostensibly, a ceasefire would enable him to pour those dollars into campaigning against the Democratic candidate, James Talarico. The scorched-earth line of attack that a PAC affiliated with him landed on: Talarico thinks God isn’t a dude. Or, in exact terms, that one time he said on the Texas House floor that “God is nonbinary.” Talarico has mostly ignored the increased scrutiny of his public theology. On election night, he posted Paxton’s mugshot and named the attorney general’s various indictments and misdeeds, calling him “the most corrupt politician in America.” Meanwhile, Paxton…
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