Trump heads to Texas to keep its 32 year red-streak—joining Elon Musk’s $158 million effort to keep ‘lunatic’ Dem candidate Talarico out of office
Source: Fortune ·
The president will appear in Corpus Christi and Lubbock in his effort to boost Republican Ken Paxton's campaign against Democrat James Talarico.
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President Donald Trump will be joined by one of his potential successors on Tuesday as he tries to keep Texas, which hasn’t elected a Democrat to statewide office in 32 years, in the Republican column in next week’s midterm elections. The president will appear in Corpus Christi and Lubbock in his effort to boost Republican Ken Paxton’s competitive U.S. Senate campaign against Democrat James Talarico. Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to help Trump show off a newly arrived oil tanker filled with Venezuelan crude to be processed in Texas refineries, according to a congressional aide and two U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Rubio’s schedule ahead of a public announcement. “We’re going to accept a million barrels of oil, and I’m going to give it to you people to use it the way you want,” Trump said as he left Washington without mentioning Rubio. The president is entering the final week of his last midterms in a frenzied push to shore up Republican…