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Axios sees Texas’s political shift as a warning for both parties.

In Axios’s telling, Texas’s shift matters not just for who won, but for what it says about voters’ demands. In southern border counties, the outlet says, voters who wanted tighter borders also opposed targeting nonviolent people—and Republicans were punished for not listening. In the suburbs, traditional Republicans and moderate Democrats rejected Ken Paxton as “not on the level,” with Axios tying corruption to the shift. The national warning is conditional: if Democrats can keep Texas, Axios argues, Republicans have no path to the presidency.

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