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James Tusi was opening of the 2006 primaries.

If Variety was covering it, the headline would be a bafo night for Democrats. State and Texas,

where most of the attention was, state legislator James Tala Rico, the stronger candidate,

won an impressive primary over firebrand Jasmine Crockett, who then conceded after stalling for a while and embraced his candidacy.

Democrats haven't won a Texas Senate race in 37 years.

Tala Rico, I think, has the best chance of anyone in that time.

And in part, that's because on the Republican side, four-term Senator John Cornyn was forced into a runoff

against Attorney General Ken Paxton, a man who radiates scandal and sweeps, but is loved

by a lot of the right-wingerers in Texas. Now, you know, this is a 12-week primary, James,

and it's going to be enormously expensive and really dirty.

I mean, already Cornyn is running against Paxton for sleeping with a woman, a married woman with seven children.

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