2026年10月15日 / 美国东部时间上午10:33 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：卡罗琳·林顿
德克萨斯州联邦参议员竞选的民主党候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科的团队周四宣布，他在三个月内筹集了创纪录的6400万美元——超过任何一位参议院候选人第三季度的筹款总额。
竞选团队表示，这使得塔拉里科自去年宣布参选以来的总筹款额达到1.34亿美元。
他的共和党对手、州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿本月早些时候称，自己同期筹款1800万美元。塔拉里科打破了杰米·哈里森2020年南卡罗来纳州联邦参议员竞选期间创下的5700万美元第三季度筹款纪录，尽管哈里森当年竞选失利。
尽管自1988年以来民主党人从未在德克萨斯州赢得过联邦参议员选举，但该州的民主党人筹款能力向来强劲。2018年，候选人贝托·奥罗克在相同的三个月周期内筹集了当时创下纪录的3800万美元。
近期民调显示，塔拉里科以微弱优势领先帕克斯顿。
现任共和党参议员约翰·康恩是筹款大户，今年早些时候的党内初选中输给了帕克斯顿，而帕克斯顿长期以来在筹款方面表现乏力。共和党人已为支持帕克斯顿投入数亿美元，尽管有音频片段泄露，显示帕克斯顿似乎在贬低外界对这场竞选的全国性介入。
曾在初选中支持帕克斯顿对抗康恩的前总统特朗普，作为其长期盟友，在一个月内三次前往德克萨斯州为帕克斯顿助选。
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美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）周三晚间为塔拉里科举办了一场市政厅活动，并表示已邀请帕克斯顿，但对方未作回应。CNN和CBS均由斯凯朗（Skydance）集团所有。
在市政厅活动中，塔拉里科着重阐述了竞选的经济主题，对选民表示：“我们面临负担能力危机，根源在于腐败危机。”他还谈及了堕胎权等议题，以及自己近期缺席竞选活动的情况，证实自己当时患上了流感，并抨击了针对此事的网上阴谋论。
“我在家休养一周的决定让我的对手及其阴谋论者们陷入疯狂。我打开社交媒体后发现，有人说我显然已经退选、飞往俄亥俄州的精神卫生机构，甚至说我已经去世，”塔拉里科说，“这太离谱了。这些虚假言论在网上获得了数百万的浏览量。”
帕克斯顿周三宣布，其竞选团队将于本周末在沃斯堡附近启动为期两周的巴士巡讲活动，并在选举日前一晚于阿拉莫战役纪念馆结束行程。
德克萨斯州的早期投票将于周一启动。
James Talarico announces record-breaking $64 million fundraising haul in Texas Senate race
October 15, 2026 / 10:33 AM EDT / CBS News
By Caroline Linton
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico raised a record-breaking $64 million in three months — more than any Senate candidate ever in the third quarter — his campaign announced Thursday.
The campaign said that brings Talarico’s total fundraising to $134 million since he announced his candidacy last year.
His Republican opponent, Attorney General Ken Paxton, said earlier this month that he had raised $18 million in the same period. Talarico broke Jamie Harrison’s record of $57 million, raised during the third quarter in his unsuccessful 2020 Senate campaign in South Carolina.
Although a Democrat hasn’t won a Senate election in Texas since 1988, Democrats there have been powerhouse fundraisers. In 2018, candidate Beto O’Rourke raised a then-record $38 million in the same three-month period.
Recent polls have shown Talarico with a slight lead over Paxton.
Incumbent GOP Sen. John Cornyn, a prolific fundraiser, lost the primary earlier this year to Paxton, who has long struggled as a fundraiser. Republicans have dumped hundreds of millions into the race to support Paxton, even as there have been leaks of audio clips of Paxton appearing to disparage national involvement in the race.
President Trump, who backed Paxton in the primary against Cornyn and is a longtime ally, has traveled to Texas three times in a month to campaign for Paxton.
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CNN hosted a town hall with Talarico on Wednesday night, and said Paxton had been invited but declined to respond. CNN and CBS are both owned by Skydance.
At the town hall, Talarico drove home the economic theme of his campaign, telling voters, “We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.” He also addressed issues ranging from abortion to his recent absence from the campaign trail, confirming that he had the flu and slamming online conspiracy theories about it.
“That decision to stay home for a week sent my opponent and his conspiracy theorists spiraling. I opened up social media and learned that I had apparently dropped out of the race, flown to a mental health facility in Ohio, that I had died,” Talarico said. “This is crazy. I mean, these false claims got millions of views online.”
Paxton announced Wednesday that his campaign is kicking off a two-week bus tour this weekend near Fort Worth that will wrap up the night before Election Day at the Alamo.
Early voting starts Monday in Texas.
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