The left-wing media is clutching its pearls over the Republican response to the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas, James Talarico.
The leftist Washington Post joined the symphony of whining about how Republicans are portraying the Presbyterian seminarian and former middle school teacher as a “radical” by reposting his own words in an article headlined, “GOP, fearing tough fight for Texas Senate seat, paints Democrat as radical.”
“Fearing a tougher-than-expected race for one of Texas’s two Senate seats, Republicans are trying to cast Democratic candidate James Talarico as a radical leftist out of step with voters,” WaPo claimed.
“Republicans are letting Dem candidate’s actual far left radical positions to speak for themselves.”
-Fixed it for you
— JackalopeATX (@scotthar_tx) March 14, 2026
“They have resurfaced videos of Talarico’s past comments, including one in which the state representative declares that ‘God is nonbinary.’ His two potential GOP opponents — who are headed to a bitter runoff in May — have shared sound bites of Talarico speaking on border security and attacked him for supporting trans rights,” the article continued, not expounding on how sharing Talarico’s own views and words is an attack by the GOP.
“National Republicans ratcheted up their attacks this week with a digital ad that shows an artificial-intelligence-generated Talarico reading similar, years-old social media posts about pronouns and ‘radicalized white men,'” the outlet added. “The torrent of videos Republicans are resurfacing across social media points to how they will try to erode that image and paint Talarico as something very different: a liberal wolf in Christian sheep’s clothing.”
UNEARTHED: Texas Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico says he loves trans kids as much as his family.
HOST: “Something that you love that’s not family or friends?”
TALARICO: “Trans children.” pic.twitter.com/zOoGkQnAb6
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 9, 2026
Talarico told MSNOW that the GOP attacks are just a way “to distract us with the same old culture wars” and that Republicans have taken some of his comments out of context.
But it seems the Democrat has done a thorough job of representing his own views, needing no help from the GOP to portray him as a “radical.”
Beto O’Rourke may have been a total FREAK, but even he didn’t say something as bizarre as “God is nonbinary,” like James Talarico.
Texans should not be fooled. Talarico might not have BLUE HAIR, but that doesn’t mean he’s not a full-on RADICAL LEFTIST!!
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) March 12, 2026
WAPO and Talarico don’t want Texans to know what Talarico believes.
— BR (@ricksb1962) March 14, 2026
LOL we did not have to cast him as anything.
He’s a cross between Beto, Bernie and Chucky.— Sandra Paulley ✝️ 🇺🇸 (@slphouston) March 14, 2026
Uhhh, have you read his tweets?? I mean, they are right there…
— M. Aurelius (@VitemBacchanal) March 14, 2026
Boasts about how much fun he had at an abortion march, at age 14. He’s defined himself as a radical Progressive Christian and Democrat Socialits, needs no help from REPs. pic.twitter.com/UyrRodtYId
— Mark Strickland (@smarkstrickland) March 14, 2026
In other words, Republicans are using Talarico’s own words against him.
— Ken Brisnehan (@KBrisnehan) March 14, 2026
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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