{"id":79899,"date":"2026-10-12T16:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/im-asking-for-proof-of-spine-from-him-talarico-challenges-paxton-to-debate\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:55:01","slug":"im-asking-for-proof-of-spine-from-him-talarico-challenges-paxton-to-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/im-asking-for-proof-of-spine-from-him-talarico-challenges-paxton-to-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m asking for proof of spine from him\u2019: Talarico challenges Paxton to debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas State Rep. James Talarico (D-Texas) is dismissing rumors around his recent multi-day absence from the campaign trail in his bid for U.S. Senate, saying he simply had the flu. NBC 5\u2019s Phil Prazan joins Meet the Press NOW to speak about his interview with Talarico as he returns to campaigning and his renewed challenge to debate his opponent Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas State Rep. James Talarico (D-Texas) is dismissing rumors around his recent multi-day absence from the campaign trail in his bid for U.S. Senate, saying he simply had the flu. NBC 5\u2019s Phil Prazan joins Meet the Press NOW to speak about his interview with Talarico as he returns to campaigning and his renewed challenge &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018I\u2019m asking for proof of spine from him\u2019: Talarico challenges Paxton to debate\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/im-asking-for-proof-of-spine-from-him-talarico-challenges-paxton-to-debate\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018I\u2019m asking for proof of spine from him\u2019: Talarico challenges Paxton to debate\">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-79899","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\/79899","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=79899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}