‘Secret underground club’ of Texas suburban women threatens to kneecap Ken Paxton

Ken Paxton is losing ground with a crucial bloc of voters in the Houston suburbs, and it could cost Republicans a Senate seat in Texas.Talarico yard signs appear to outnumber Paxton’s in Bridgeland, a sprawling subdivision in the conservative Cypress area, and voters on both sides told The Washington Post that Paxton, the state’s scandal-plagued attorney general, has lost support among suburban women.A University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll released last week found Democratic state Rep. James Talarico leading Paxton among women 56 percent to 40 percent. That’s a wider gap than his 54 percent to 44 percent lead among all suburban voters. Overall, recent polls show Talarico narrowly ahead, by two to four points, and he raised a record $64 million in the third quarter to Paxton’s $18 million.“Republican primary voters made the decision to nominate the most deeply flawed Republican statewide candidate in modern history and that’s bearing...