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Early voting shapes CBS TEXAS's final Paxton-Talarico Senate look

Jack Fink examines Dallas and Tarrant County turnout before turning to the candidates' closing arguments and the parties' Election Day plans.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 171,651 views a day, 156 times a normal first day on this channel (1,099).

Eye on Politics: One last look at the 2026 Texas Senate race

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2:28Donnini examines youth turnout, Dallas-Tarrant demographic shifts and why primary voters are likely to vote again.
8:43Fink presents closing campaign arguments from the Senate and gubernatorial candidates.
11:48Poll averages and AdImpact advertising figures put the Senate campaign's spending into context.
13:31Gruters describes Republican priorities: voter registration, turnout and ballot protection.
16:38Thompson explains Senate Majority PAC's strategy and its view of Texas as an unexpected battleground.
20:00Plano's Proposition A would authorize taxes to help fund a proposed Dallas Stars arena at Willow Bend.

Jack Fink puts the voters who have already cast ballots ahead of the closing campaign speeches in CBS TEXAS's final pre-election edition of Eye on Politics. The question is not just who is ahead in a poll, but which voters are showing up.

In "Eye on Politics: One last look at the 2026 Texas Senate race", VoteHub's Zachary Donnini examines youth turnout and demographic shifts in Dallas and Tarrant Counties. He also explains why primary participation is a useful clue: voters who take part in a primary are highly likely to return for the general election.

That turnout-focused look at Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico drew more than 130,000 views in its first fourteen hours, far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for regular videos. A separate upload, "The 2026 Texas Senate race reaches its final approach", also drew an unusually large audience, while a Short pulled out the early-voting discussion.

Fink then moves from participation to persuasion, showing the candidates' final pitches and appearances by Donald Trump and JD Vance supporting Paxton. Poll averages and campaign advertising spending sit alongside interviews with representatives of both parties.

RNC Chairman Joe Gruters describes his party's work as registering voters, getting them to turn out and protecting the ballot. Senate Majority PAC's Christyna Thompson explains the Democratic group's strategy and why it sees Texas as competitive. The programme closes by bringing the election back to local decisions, including Plano's proposed taxes to help fund a Dallas Stars arena.

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