Trump Hit With Shock Poll in Crucial Senate Race

Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images Ken Paxton, Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate in the Texas Senate race, is trailing his Democratic rival in a conservative poll. Democratic state Rep. James Talarico leads the scandal-plagued Texas attorney general 47 percent to 45 percent, according to a survey of 1,200 likely voters by the Barbara Jordan Public Policy Research and Survey Center at Texas Southern University. It’s the third consecutive conservative poll to show Talarico leading Paxton ahead of…