Texas Senate Race Turns Masculinity Into a Campaign Platform
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s first general-election ad against Democratic state Sen. James Talarico didn’t open with a policy contrast. It opened with an accusation that Talarico doesn’t have enough testosterone. The ad, released the day after Paxton clinched the Republican Senate nomination, ends with an image of Talarico beside the words “Radical Talarico: too…