2026年11月3日 美国东部时间晚上10:56 / CBS新闻
CBS新闻预测，民主党人詹姆斯·塔利里科将在得克萨斯州参议院选举中击败共和党人肯·帕克斯顿，这是民主党在“孤星之州”长期寻求的一次重大席位翻转。
现年37岁的塔利里科曾是教师、长老会神学院学生，自称是一名进步派基督徒，竞选纲领聚焦打击腐败和降低生活成本。他与州总检察长帕克斯顿展开角逐，这场备受关注的参议院竞选是民主党自1988年以来首次在得克萨斯州获得参议院胜利的真正机会。
现年63岁的帕克斯顿在共和党提名的初选中击败了参议员约翰·科宁，赶走了这位自2002年起代表得克萨斯州的现任参议员——当时帕克斯顿得到了特朗普总统最后一刻的背书。初选结束后，民主党人的获胜几率提升，原因是帕克斯顿过往的个人争议以及他更为保守的立场，许多共和党人哀叹他们必须花费数百万美元才能保住得克萨斯州的这个席位。到10月中旬，这场选举的花费已超过5亿美元，成为该州历史上最昂贵的选举。
这位得克萨斯州总检察长在2023年被州众议院弹劾，罪名包括受贿、妨碍司法和滥用公众信任。后来他被州参议院宣判无罪。竞选期间，在离婚诉讼风波中，有更多报道曝出，包括他2024年新年前夜在迪拜参加派对时，与两名美国逃犯以及一名非妻子身份的女子在一起。帕克斯顿的竞选团队谴责这些报道，但没有否认，同时称他遭到了政治迫害。
帕克斯顿以及更广泛的共和党阵营把矛头对准了塔利里科，称他对得克萨斯州来说过于激进，同时指出他此前在纯素食主义、性别等问题上的言论，塔利里科后来表示其中一些言论“不符合实际”，甚至称“很尴尬”。上个月，塔利里科因患上严重流感离开竞选行程超过一周，共和党人对他的行踪进行审查，引发了阴谋论。但在塔利里科的竞选团队分享了安全监控录像，显示他在缺席期间身在得克萨斯州的家中后，外界的关注似乎逐渐消失。
随着塔利里科的当选，民主党在争取控制参议院的过程中拿下了关键一胜。
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- 詹姆斯·塔利里科
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- 肯·帕克斯顿
James Talarico wins Texas 2026 Senate election, flipping seat for Democrats
November 3, 2026 / 10:56 PM EST / CBS News
Democrat James Talarico will defeat Republican Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, CBS News projects, marking a major flip for Democrats that they have long sought in the Lone Star State.
Talarico, 37, is a former teacher and Presbyterian seminarian who identifies himself as a progressive Christian and ran on fighting corruption and lowering costs. He faced off against Paxton, the state’s attorney general, in a closely watched Senate contest as Democrats saw their first real opportunity for a Senate victory in Texas for the first time since 1988.
Paxton, 63, defeated Sen. John Cornyn in a runoff for the GOP nomination, ousting the incumbent senator who has represented Texas since 2002 with the support of a last-minute endorsement from President Trump. After the primary, Democrats saw their chances improve, thanks to Paxton’s history of personal controversies and his more conservative positions, as many Republicans lamented that they would have to spend millions to keep the seat in Texas. By mid-October, spending in the race had already topped half a billion dollars, making it the most expensive in the state’s history.
The Texas attorney general was impeached by the state House in 2023 on accusations of bribery, obstruction of justice and abuse of the public trust. He was later acquitted by the state Senate. During the campaign, amid messy divorce proceedings, additional reporting emerged, including that he spent New Year’s Eve in 2024 at a Dubai party with two U.S. fugitives and a woman who was not his wife. The Paxton campaign decried the reporting, without denying it, while saying he had been politically persecuted.
Paxton, and the GOP more broadly, took aim at Talarico, painting him as too extreme for Texas while pointing to previous comments he made on issues like veganism and gender, some of which Talarico has said “missed the mark” and even called “cringey” later. When Talarico was away from the campaign trail for more than a week last month with what he described as a bad case of the flu, Republicans scrutinized his whereabouts, spurring conspiracies. But the attention appeared to fizzle after Talarico’s campaign shared security camera footage that appeared to show Talarico at his home in Texas during his absence from the trail.
With Talarico’s projected victory, Democrats clinch a key win as they aim to take control of the Senate.
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- James Talarico
- Texas
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- Ken Paxton
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