So now comes the challenging part for James Talarico: For the first time in his quixotic attempt to turn Texas’ Senate seat blue, he won’t have his two rivals beating up on each other more than they beat up on him.

Like it or not — and the returns seemed to indicate the state’s conservativesreallyliked it — state Attorney General Ken Paxton beat incumbent Sen. John Cornyn by amassing over 60 percent of the vote in a runoff. Polls have shown the state as close,especially if Paxton won— particularly because the Republican establishment spent an obscene amount of money trashing his character in service of keeping Cornyn propped up.

Well, one hopes that’s some rather noxious water under the bridge for conservatives of all stripes, or will be in some weeks’ time. That means Talarico isn’t going to be able to skate by on “both those guys stink, and you can trust me because they say so, too.” The woke “Presbyterian seminarian” who says God is “nonbinary” and the border should be like a “welcome mat” will have to sell himself as a Texan for all Texans: A man who loves him some high-school football, tears up at the Alamo, and knows his way around a Whataburger.

That last one might be an issue, however — and how the Democrats are packaging this isn’t really doing James any favors, either.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you your 2026 Democrats, throwing down the gauntlet against Ken Paxton:

November, here we come.pic.twitter.com/ux1w1WzGNO

— Democrats (@TheDemocrats)May 27, 2026

First off, as someone on the upper cusp of the millennial generation, I’m old enough to remember when Iran used to release hostage videos that made it onto the evening news; this form of crude video propaganda was infinitely morebelievable than this picture, which was no doubt expensively arranged and shot and pored over by at least six different teams of social media consultants.

Secondly, it’s important to note the context in which this video was originally shot and posted. In one of the multifarious videos unearthed regarding Talarico’s past extremism, they found a 2022 speech in which he blamed meat for climate change.

In 2022, James Talarico said it’s “existential” to reduce meat consumption to fight climate change.

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