Suppose you were running for the United States Senate. Suppose you were running as a Democrat in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat Senator in decades. Suppose that, despite your underdog status the polls show you are running neck and neck with your Republican opponent.
Now suppose it is coming down the home stretch of the campaign; just a month to go. Would it not stand to reason that you’d be campaigning as hard as you can, every day?
With the above in mind, has anyone seen the Democrat candidate for Senate from Texas, James Talarico?
From Matt Margolis’ article for pjmedia.com:
James Talarico’s Campaign Goes MIA. What’s Going On?
Texas State Rep. James Talarico (D-50th District) has disappeared from the campaign trail with 28 days left before he faces Republican Ken Paxton. His campaign calendar now lists no public appearances for the candidate himself, only canvassing and get-out-the-vote gatherings.
According to a report from our sister site Townhall, Talarico’s last public sighting in Texas came on Saturday, Sept. 26, more than a week ago. He then left for a fundraising trip to New York City, where the VIP dinner ran $27,000 a plate. The guest list included a filmmaker who called America a “s***hole” and a group that advocates child sex change surgeries.
The absences piled up from there. Talarico skipped his in-person Sept. 30 speech to the U.S. Hispanic Business Council in the Rio Grande Valley and joined virtually from a hotel instead. The explanation attendees got was, “His staff says he’s ill and was unable to travel.” During that remote appearance, Talarico said he had to seek treatment at an urgent care clinic in Dallas, and social media users have disputed that timeline.
Then came the recycled footage. On Friday, Oct. 2, the campaign posted video from a Feb. 22 rally, held before Talarico had even won the Democrat nomination, and tried to pass it off as current.
That was a blatant attempt to appear active to the public when it is not. Three days later, the campaign canceled his Oct. 5 event with the Central Texas African American Civic Engagement Symposium without explanation.
The cancellations kept coming. The campaign also scrapped his Oct. 6 grassroots Final Austin Fundraiser…
Talarico has disappeared? For over a week? At the end stage of his campaign? That reeks of something – and who knows what it is.Look at it this way: if Talarico had taken periods of time off from campaigning earlier as well, we might just chalk this up as his own quirky style. But that is not the case. This is out of nowhere. And it is exactly when he should be hitting the accelerator and campaigning hard every day.
Bottom line? Something is going on here. Something that we don’t know. But something that is not good for this campaign. And it would seem impossible that whatever it is can be hidden for the entire rest of this campaign.
When there is more – and, again, there is certain to be more – I’ll be writing about it. Stay tuned.
