$51 million for Paxton. Talarico had the air. The caucus came in.

Texas PAC booked $51.3 million in television on Friday for Ken Paxton — Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin — after Senate Republicans sat the summer out. James Talarico, the Democrat, had the air. John Cornyn had the caucus. The States desk files Texas as a Senate seat the party will not lose on purpose.

MAGA Inc. put up $10 million last week. Elon Musk’s America PAC has spent more than $2.6 million. Alex Latcham, who runs the Senate Leadership Fund: the buy “affirms our commitment to maintaining the Republican majority.” A Cook poll of Hispanic likely voters put Democrats up 2-to-1. Trump’s job number with them: 33 percent. The spots have names. “Traffickers.” “For They Them.”

Affirms our commitment to maintaining the Republican majority.

Eight weeks from a midterm. Diesel is a record. A president is in Clare. He held a convention in Dallas and left the state to the ads. The States desk files $51 million as the Texas number on a Sunday the markets are shut and the spots are not.