# In an Emerson College Polling/Nexstar survey, likely voters under 50 favored James Talarico 53% to 38%, while voters over 50 favored Ken Paxton 53% to 42%.

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## Receipts
- 2026-08-16T04:13:52.226Z: Texas Senate Poll Reveals Sharp Age Divide Between Paxton and Talarico
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- 2026-08-16T04:22:16.000Z: Emerson College Polling executive director Spencer Kimball supplied the age-split statement quoted in the official release.
- 2026-08-16T04:22:16.000Z: Emerson College Polling published the August 13 Texas survey in partnership with Nexstar Media.
- 2026-08-16T04:22:16.000Z: In an Emerson College Polling/Nexstar survey, likely voters under 50 favored James Talarico 53% to 38%, while voters over 50 favored Ken Paxton 53% to 42%.
- 2026-08-16T04:22:16.000Z: The official Emerson release preserves the topline, age split, field dates, sample, collection mode, weighting, and survey caveats.
- 2026-08-16T04:22:16.000Z: Emerson cautions that demographic subsets have higher credibility intervals because their sample sizes are smaller and that results should be read as ranges.
- 2026-08-16T04:22:16.000Z: The official poll supports the reported age split, but candidate responses and qualifying registered cross-publication coverage were not retained in this window.