{"id":78524,"date":"2026-09-10T14:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/james-talarico-accuses-ken-paxton-of-ignoring-epstein-survivors\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T14:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:55:48","slug":"james-talarico-accuses-ken-paxton-of-ignoring-epstein-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/james-talarico-accuses-ken-paxton-of-ignoring-epstein-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"James Talarico accuses Ken Paxton of \u2018ignoring\u2019 Epstein survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are targeting Trump\u2019s relationship with Epstein as part of strategy ahead of midterm elections<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/04\/texas-primaries-democrats-texas\">James Talarico<\/a>, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, accused his rival Ken Paxton of \u201cignoring\u201d survivors of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s sexual abuse, as Democrats seek to increase pressure on Republicans ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Dallas, where Republicans are holding a midterm convention this week, Talarico appeared alongside one of Epstein\u2019s victims at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/dallas-epstein-files-exhibit-trump-relationship-rnc-convention-september-2026\/\">an exhibit<\/a> that featured about 3.5m pages of Department of Justice\u2019s files related to Epstein.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/10\/james-talarico-ken-paxton-epstein-survivors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are targeting Trump\u2019s relationship with Epstein as part of strategy ahead of midterm elections James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, accused his rival Ken Paxton of \u201cignoring\u201d survivors of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s sexual abuse, as Democrats seek to increase pressure on Republicans ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections. Speaking in Dallas, where Republicans &#8230; <a title=\"James Talarico accuses Ken Paxton of \u2018ignoring\u2019 Epstein survivors\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/james-talarico-accuses-ken-paxton-of-ignoring-epstein-survivors\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about James Talarico accuses Ken Paxton of \u2018ignoring\u2019 Epstein survivors\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}