Democrats got the Texas Senate race they wanted with James Talarico facing Attorney General Ken Paxton, but Republicans want to remind them of the old saying, “Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.”The GOP has immediately and almost joyfully gone negative against Talarico, in an attempt to define him as someone culturally out of step with — and maybe a little too weird for — Texas.A lot of this groundwork was laid before Paxton defeated four-term Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the runoff election last month, as Talarico secured the Democratic nomination in the first round of voting back in March.
Talarico, 37, is being portrayed as an effeminate, meat-skeptical progressive with radical, even bizarre, views on gender, race, and religion.
“He goes by a few names that you all may have heard of. Some people know him as tofu Talarico. Some people call him six-gender Jimmy. I’ve even heard some people call him James Talafreako,” Paxton told a cheering crowd. “And others refer to him simply as Low-T Talarico.”
“He’s clearly transitioning into a female,” deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller, a longtime top adviser to President Donald Trump, said of Talarico. “When Talarico goes in for a blood test, when he gets a physical, blood doesn’t come out. Soy milk comes out.”
