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[^2]\n\nIn Michigan, Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed accused Republican rival Mike Rogers of having 'beta energy' during an argument over their high school football credentials. [^3]\n\nA political action committee supporting Ken Paxton, Republican Senate nominee in Texas, aired an ad that opened with a bearded man in a hard hat saying 'This is Texas' and then cut to a clip of James Talarico saying there are more than two biological sexes, with the narrator adding 'This is not.' [^4]\n\nAbdul El-Sayed, Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, wrote on social media that Mike Rogers had 'beta energy' and that his teammates didn't vote him captain, in response to Rogers' campaign ad. [^5]\n\nMike Rogers, Republican Senate nominee in Michigan, responded to Abdul El-Sayed by writing that nothing screams 'alpha' like a 41-year-old desperately reminding everyone he was popular in high school. [^6]\n\nTed Cruz, Republican senator from Texas, said on Fox News that if you were making a list of 1,000 adjectives to describe James Talarico, 'masculine' would not be one of them, and that a stiff breeze would blow him over. 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