Iran overshadows Texas Senate primary as Dallas voters cast ballots
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Dallas – I met Lizbeth when I spent 10 minutes chanting at the wrong rally.
She thought I was there to cover the anti-Trump event, but instead there was a smaller group Mostly Iranian “No Mullah, no Shah!” In support of dissident leader Mariam Rajavi, and for a time, Lizbeth recently joined.
Just talking to people in Dallas, it was easy to understand that our strikes on Iran overlapped the two. US Senate primaries And capturing the imagination not just of Texas, but of the nation.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton believed he could win against longtime Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, even without the support of President Donald Trump. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images; Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
I met John and Jill, who have both worked for the same insurance company for over 20 years and are about to become empty-nesters with plans to move to the Alabama beach. He’s a Republican and she’s a Democrat, a situation I see more often than people expect.
Interestingly, we casually watched coverage of the NFL Combine before delving into Texas politics, the three of us toasting the death of Ayatollah Khamenei, John saying “not a moment too soon.”
I’ll be honest, it took all my bravado and Irish charm to figure out who they supported. Actually, Jill wouldn’t spill the beans at all, but John told me Voted for Sen. John CornynAnd he expects to win, though he looks a little nervous when he says it.
“He’s steady, we all know him, I think he’ll pull it out,” John said. But when I asked if his friends were disappointed by a moderate senator voting for MAGA-aligned Attorney General Ken Paxton, he smiled, nodded and said, “Yeah, sure.”
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Jill was more cautious, as if she sensed intuitively that the rep. A split between supporters of Jasmine Crockett and state legislator James Talarico has made voting dangerous.
“The bottom line is to get someone there who can fight Trump, who can make Texas blue again,” she said. When I pressed that it was more clearly a “medium” Talarico, she just gave me a look that said, “You don’t know that.”
State Representative James Talarico, left, Democrat of Texas and candidate for U.S. Senate, and Representative Jasmine Crockett, Democrat of Texas and candidate for U.S. Senate, shake hands during a discussion at the 2026 Texas AFL-CIO COPE Convention in Georgetown, Texas. (Bob Demrich/The Texas Tribune/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Breaking down with John and Jill took me back to a conversation I had with Rajiv, one of the leaders of the anti-regime rally earlier that day, “We just want democracy in Iran,” he told me. “Very happy to see the Ayatollah go today.”
It makes me wonder how sometimes we hold our own democracy and freedom a little cheap.
Soon, John, Jill, and I were joined in our conversation by Laurie, a young woman in her 20s A politically divided relationshipThis time between her, who voted for Talarico, and her lover, who was not present, who pulled the lever for Crockett.
“I think he has the best chance to win,” she told us, with music to her ears Stephen Colbert And every other leftist who thinks he’s a Bible-quoting Beto O’Rourke 2.0 can pull it off. But she added, “I really like croquet.”
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Selectivity is a funny thing. Both Talarico’s and Cornyn’s camps believe that he is the driving force that brought them to the top. But selectivity can also be like a Greek tragedy, because sometimes it’s the safe choice that alienates new potential voters.
It was clear to me that Larry had voted with her head, not her heart, and that could best describe the atmosphere of the Democratic contest. In such cases, I always think that the heart has an inner path.
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“I feel so stupid,” Lizbeth told me, as we parted moments after her accidental stint as an Iranian anti-government protester. “Hey,” I said to her, “you took some time off before work and tried to make the world a better place. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
Lizbeth nodded and smiled, “That’s true,” she said, folding her handmade sign in her hand.
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“Oh, by the way,” I called out as she walked away, “who are you voting for? Senate race?”
She thought for a moment and told me, “I haven’t decided,” which meant that in the next three days, each candidate still had work to do, and still had a chance to celebrate on Tuesday night.
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