Talarico has type 1 diabetes and is at a higher risk of more severe symptoms from the Flu.

Talarico is doing a televised town hall event tonight. Where is Ken Paxton? He was invited to be there, you'd think a high-testosterone alpha male would relish the opportunity...

Osodecentx said:

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El Oso said:

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Nine days. Well within a normal time frame of 7-14 days.

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For MeMaw maybe. Not for a man running for the Senate. At a minimum if he had the flu, he could have posted to social media during his vacation away from sanity.

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https://www.texastribune.org/2026/10/13/james-talarico-ken-paxton-senate-texas-mental-hospital/

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What point are you trying to make?

That a 37 year old man living with his mother and overly concerned with transkids is just a regular person, no mental health issues at all?

Good luck.

HuMcK said:

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Talarico is doing a televised town hall event tonight. Where is Ken Paxton? He was invited to be there, you'd think a high-testosterone alpha male would relish the opportunity...

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Transkids are given free access, right?

Bestweekeverr said:

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Talarico has type 1 diabetes and is at a higher risk of more severe symptoms from the Flu.

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Then you would think his mother, the person he claims to live with, would shed some light on this.

Or at least one of the transkids that he frequently encounters.

If the Texas Tribune is your source, you are basically selling Leftist Fiction.

This race comes down to who votes.

I looked at the newest 8 polls in RCP, and looked up the crosstabs.

Talarico leads with women (50.5 to 40.5, 51% of 2022 voters in Texas), Blacks (70.2 to 18.8, 12% of 2022 voters in Texas), Hispanics (53.9 to 36.4, 21% of 2022 voters in Texas), under 35 (60.1 to 29.2, 15% of 2022 voters in Texas);

Paxton leads with men (49.1 to 43.3, 49% of 2022 voters in Texas), Whites (54.0 to 39.3, 62% of 2022 voters in Texas), and 65+ years old (55.0 to 39.9, 27% of 2022 voters in Texas).

Several polls did not breakdown support by political party, and two (Rasmussen and FOX) hid their poll demographics behind a pay wall and provided very little detail, no crosstabs.

When weighted by 2022 voter in Texas demographics (the last midterm), Talarico leads overall 43.96% to 43.35%.

Oldbear83 said:

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If the Texas Tribune is your source, you are basically selling Leftist Fiction.

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There are a number of sources. The guy who first reported has retracted his article & apologized

Osodecentx said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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If the Texas Tribune is your source, you are basically selling Leftist Fiction.

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There are a number of sources. The guy who first reported has retracted his article & apologized

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There's a big difference between rumors and the claim that Paxton himself deliberately lied.

But I get it, anything to deflect from the tight race and smear the guy you don't like.

Random rumors about Talarico bad, character attacks on Paxton cool, right?

It's still weird the dude disappeared for two weeks and claims to have had the flu ... why lie?

Harrison Bergeron said:

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It's still weird the dude disappeared for two weeks and claims to have had the flu ... why lie?

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That depends on whom you ask. T's people just say he had the flu, which is the story they had all along.

The 'mental hospital' claim has no support and seems to have been a dirty trick worthy of James Carville.

The strange thing for the Talarico people is their silence for most of the period T was out of sight, which made it look like they might be hiding something else.

Not likely to be a needle mover.