James Talarico wasn’t born the last time a Democrat won a Texas Senate race. At 37, he won one despite $200 million from Elon Musk to stop him

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Democrat James Talarico defeated Republican Ken Paxton in Texas’s Senate race, NBC News and Decision Desk HQ projected. The 37-year-old is the first Democrat to win a Senate race in Texas since 1988, when Lloyd Bentsen won his last term, six months before Talarico was born. He is also the first Democrat to win any statewide office there since 1994. The money Elon Musk spent more than $200 million to help elect Paxton, according to a New York Times analysis cited in Fortune’s tally of his political giving. Most of it went through the Senate GOP’s main super PAC, Senate Leadership Fund. Musk gave SLF $75 million on Sept. 9 and $83 million on Sept. 23, and each time, SLF moved nearly the same amount into a new entity called Texas PAC the next day, the Texas Tribune reported. His trust also gave $10 million to Lone Star Liberty PAC, the main outside group backing Paxton. The money came after Talarico had outspent Paxton on the airwaves for months. By the end of September, outside groups…

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