Years of organizing met a moment of voter discontent, as James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa offered Texans a vision of economic relief and political change.
Democrats are up in Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Maine and Ohio, have an edge in Alaska and are effectively tied with Republicans in Iowa, new New York Times/Siena polls found.
James Talarico campaigning in Dallas on Thursday. Mr. Talaricoβs race against Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, may well decide which party controls the Senate.