James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the open U.S. Senate seat, plans a campaign rally at Aggie Park in College Station on Friday, Oct. 30, WTAW reported Monday.
Gates open at 6 p.m., and the rally is scheduled to run from 7 to 8 p.m. An RSVP page for the event, titled "Rally in College Station with James Talarico," is posted on the Mobilize organizing site.
The stop is part of what Talarico calls his "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts" tour, a closing swing across Texas that his campaign announced Oct. 16. The name borrows the motto from *Friday Night Lights*.
According to KWTX, which reported on the campaign's announcement, the tour opened in Plano, takes in more than a dozen cities from Texarkana to El Paso, and ends with a rally in Austin on Nov. 2, the night before Election Day. In the release, Talarico said the tour aims "to unite working people onto one team."
At an earlier stop in Tyler, organizers put the crowd at nearly 2,000, the Tyler Morning Telegraph reported. There, Talarico framed the race around living costs, telling the audience, "We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis."
The Republican side
Talarico faces Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee. Paxton is closing his own campaign with a "Come and Take It" bus tour that began in Rockwall and is set to end at the Alamo on Nov. 2, The Texas Tribune reported in a story KBTX republished.
The tour lists more than 30 stops; none of the 19 cities named in that announcement is in the Brazos Valley.
