“James Talarico bounded onto the stage of a packed Houston nightclub Wednesday night to the rapturous cheers of hundreds of Democrats desperate for his U.S. Senate run to finally be the one,” the New York Times reports. “The boisterous, standing-room-only rally was taking place less than 24 hours after Republicans had finally settled their bitter primary runoff Tuesday, selecting Attorney General Ken Paxton as the party’s nominee by a lopsided margin over Senator John Cornyn.”“Even before the final votes were counted in that contest, the general election began on Wednesday in what was already shaping up to be a rancorous and deeply personal fight.”