Republicans wasted no time in stirring up conservative outrage as Talarico earned a primary victory in Texas
Question: Is James Talarico homosexual? Separate from that, there's a prayer online that he gave that addresses God as "Holy Mystery". Very strange -- trying to be all things to all people. I cannot imagine the black community will be down with him. "Holy Mystery: you have so many names. The Torah calls you Creator; the Quran calls you Peace, the Gita calls you Destroyer, the Dharma calls you Truth, and the First Epistle of John calls you perhaps the most beautiful name of all; Love." "You are the strange love uniting all tings. The love that drew elements together after that Big Bang; the love that drew life itself from those primordial oceans; the love that drew us all to this exact moment." "the love we were born of, the love we exist in, and the love we will one day return to." "In my faith, yo expressed yourself through a barefoot rabbi who embodied your perfect love. A crucified carpenter who gave only two commandments: love God and love neighbor. Because there is no love of God without love of neighbor." GOOD DAY
Well hello there DonnyMoist, I think voters need to know where he stands on LGBTQ+ issues and where he is personally on his walk with the Holy Mystery. I have no problem with people who enjoy the sweet stuff -- but obviously it's not for an alpha Conquistador. GOOD DAY
Be interesting seeing one of those actual Jesus Christians running for Texas Senate.... Then you have "biblically divorced" fake Christian Paxton and little b*tch boy Cornyn in a run off.
I do think voters got disenfranchised by the mess Republicans made in Dallas County. That's Crockett's home base. Talarico probably wins it regardless. She was a good foot soldier and conceded. Sorry to tell you that she did pass the bar and has run her own practice for over a decade and can make a perfectly decent income as a lawyer. She could also leverage her congressional experience toward political consulting or become a lobbyist. And, given her personality, I doubt she gives up on politics anyway. She could do organizing in the near term for the party until another campaign opportunity comes up. She is going to be fine.
I saw a video that said Crockett tried to run an experimental Trump-inspired style campaign with no actual policy positions at all, just personality. I didn't follow closely enough to say if its true, but if so, seems like she has a pretty clear path to course correct if she wants.
It's not that people lie. The issue is that polling primary electorates in a state as big as Texas is borderline impossible. Frankly, the polls did highlight a very clear racial polarization gap in the electorate (Crockett winning African Americans with Talarico winning overwhelmingly with White and upper income Latino voters but doing not quite as well with lower income Latino voters). Most polls correctly highlighted that pattern. The issue was that getting the composition of voters by race correct.
There are six genders according to James Talarico. This party wants to lecture us on science, amigos! GOOD DAY
This morning I called James and congratulated him on becoming the Senate nominee. Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person. This is about the future of all 30 million Texans and getting America back on track. With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominees and win. I’m committed to doing my part and will continue working to elect democrats up and down the ballot.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett conceded to state Rep. James Talarico in the Texas Democratic Senate primary Wednesday morning, after saying on Tuesday that the election could not be called due to a legal dispute over voting precinct hours in Dallas. “Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person,” she said in a statement Wednesday. “This is about the future of all 30 million Texans and getting America back on track. With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominees and win.” The two-term House lawmaker had left her election night party early on Tuesday, telling supporters not to expect final results in the Texas Senate race that night. Crockett said thousands of votes from her home base of Dallas County could potentially end up uncounted, as a pair of court rulings over poll closing times led to uncertainty about which votes would be counted. “We don’t have any of the results because there was a lot of confusion today,” Crockett told her supporters gathered at an election watch party in Dallas, later adding: “We were able to keep the polls open, but I can tell you now that people have been disenfranchised.” The dispute began in the early evening, when the state Democratic Party said its officials were receiving reports that hundreds of voters were being turned away from precincts after being told they showed up at the wrong location. A state judge ruled that polls should stay open two extra hours because of “mass confusion” around new rules put in place weeks ago by Republicans who opted out of a joint agreement that would have allowed voters to cast ballots at any polling location in the county. Crockett’s Democratic opponent, Talarico, had also called for polling places to remain open in Dallas, along with Williamson County, which also has the new rules. Crockett addressed her supporters around 9 p.m. local time, when votes were still coming from all of Texas’ 254 counties. Talarico and Crockett have been locked in a bitter primary race with racial overtones, largely focused on their contrasting styles and questions about electability. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is himself running for Senate in the GOP primary, stepped in after that initial ruling. He requested the Texas Supreme Court block the lower court ruling — which it immediately did. The Supreme Court ordered election officials to separate any votes cast by those who got in line after the scheduled closing time of 7 p.m. “What this means is that we will not know what votes are to be tallied from Election Day out of Dallas County,” Crockett said. She told them after 9 p.m. local time that she was leaving for the night and would not make another appearance Tuesday. Addressing his supporters Tuesday night around midnight local time, Talarico said “every vote must be counted.” “The voter suppression in my home county and Congresswoman Crockett’s home county underscores the gravity of this moment,” he said. Earlier in the day, when reports of voters being turned away began to surface, Crockett held a press conference in which she said “significant” numbers of people had been turned away, and that at one voting site she’d heard that the proportion of people being turned away or allowed to vote was “basically one to one.” “We have been waiting, we have been getting stories, we have been collecting evidence, because those are the things that you may need, especially if you have some pushback that is coming your way,” she said during the early evening news conference. Texas has long been a center of voting rights disputes — Crockett first gained national attention as a state representative battling against the state GOP’s move to pass a law that added new restrictions on voting in the state, which she painted as voter suppression. Now, as her Senate campaign winds down, the process of voting is once again in the spotlight.
