All posts tagged "James Talarico"

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico posted a Halloween photo with his young niece on Saturday night. Some of President Donald Trump’s supporters responded with insinuations about him.

“Happy Halloween from Princess Jane and Uncle Jimmy!” Talarico wrote on X, alongside a photo of himself kneeling next to his niece, who was dressed as a princess and holding a trick-or-treat bag.

Conservative commentator Joey Mannarino replied: “I’d keep Princess Jane far away from you.”...

Ken Paxton invited a crowd to spell out what sets him apart from his Senate rival, and a heckler happily obliged by blindsiding him.

In a clip shared Saturday by journalist Aaron Rupar, Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, urged the audience to "tell your friends the difference between me and James Talarico," his Democrat opponent. One audience member shouted back, "Paxton, you take bribes!"

The jab landed three days before Paxton faces Talarico in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country. Paxton, the state's attorney general, was impeached by the Republican-controlled Texas House in 2023 on articles that included accusations of bribery before the state Senate acquitted him....

A Justice Department veteran says a MAGA influencer's viral smear against a Senate candidate should cost him dearly in court.

Lisa Graves, a former Justice Department official, told "Legal AF" host Michael Popok during Monday's live show that Ohio's Lindner Center of HOPE should take right-wing influencer Nick Sortor to court after he claimed Texas state Rep. James Talarico had been treated at the psychiatric facility. "I personally hope the hospital sues him into bankruptcy because the damage to its business of making this claim is probably significant," Graves said.

Talarico, the Democrat running against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate, was off the campaign trail for about a week with the flu. Sortor then released audio of what he presented as a phone call with a Lindner representative, suggesting Talarico had been a patient....

Barbara Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, has given money to a super PAC supporting Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, Houston Public Media reported.

The amount is small, but it may say something about where some Republicans stand.

Lone Star Rising PAC’s third-quarter filing with the FEC lists a $2,500 contribution from the younger Bush, dated September 23. The Bush family didn’t respond to a request for comment....

The right's long-held claim to Christianity in American politics is coming apart, and one faith leader says he's enjoying every minute of it.

Pastor Paul Brandeis Raushenbush told columnist Jennifer Rubin and lawyer Norman Eisen on Wednesday's episode of "Coffee with Contrarians" that Democratic candidates who openly talk about their Christian faith, many of them seminary-trained, are rattling a right wing that assumed it had a lock on religion.

Rubin raised the issue, telling Raushenbush that faith "is not the property of any one group of people" and that it has been "wrongly appropriated by the far right." She pointed to Texas Senate candidate James Talarico as part of "a new flourishing of faith in the big tent coalition that is pro-democracy."...

A former Republican pollster who sits down with Trump voters says one MAGA Senate hopeful has a problem with his own base.

Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell said on Tuesday's episode of "The Next Level" that disaffected Trump voters in her Texas focus groups view GOP Senate hopeful Ken Paxton as a "huge scumbag," while Democrat James Talarico comes across as a "really nice guy."

"I've done a bunch of focus groups in Texas with sort of the disaffected Trump voters," Longwell said. "And you know what they think? They think Ken Paxton is a huge scumbag and that James Talarico has said some weird things but seems like a really nice guy."...