MCKINNEY — For much of her life, Liz Slack voted Republican up and down the ballot.
A longtime resident of Collin County — the hometown of U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton — Slack said she looks like a typical conservative: a Baylor University alum who goes to Bible study every week.
But as the GOP became more hardline over the past decade, she felt her center-right values — which she said did not change — grow increasingly distant from the party she’d long supported. Slack stuck with Republicans in 2016 and 2018. But as the Trump era wore on, she began to evaluate her votes race-by-race, and ultimately cast ballots for the top two Democrats in 2024: Kamala Harris for president and Colin Allred for U.S. Senate. This fall, she’s planning to vote for James Talarico…