Talarico Campaign Shares Time-Stamped Home Images Amid Absence Speculation
The campaign said the images show Talarico at home while he recovered from the flu, rebutting online claims and Paxton’s calls for proof of life.
- On Monday, Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico's campaign provided The New York Times with security footage showing him at his Austin home from Oct. 1 to Oct. 8, countering disappearance claims.
- Talarico was absent from the campaign trail for almost two weeks citing severe flu, while Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and online influencers amplified unfounded speculations he fled to Ohio for mental health treatment.
- The Lindner Center of Hope in Mason, Ohio, publicly wrote that Talarico "has never received treatment" there, while Talarico campaign spokesman J.T. Ennis called rumors "a lie designed to promote a pathetic conspiracy theory."
- Talarico reappeared in public on Friday, Oct. 9, greeting attendees at the Austin City Limits Music Festival following Paxton's demand for "proof of life."
- Times political reporter Bayliss Wagner noted the images emerged amid a "Wild West of misinformation" driven by online algorithms, as the Senate race remains bitter between Talarico and Paxton.
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NYT: Video Shows Talarico Was At Home During Flu Despite MAGA Claims He Was In Ohio Mental Facility
The New York Times reports: After James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, spent more than a week with no campaign appearances because of what he and his aides described as a bad case of the flu, a false rumor circulated by conservatives exploded online. By Sunday, a post on X claiming that … The post NYT: Video Shows Talarico Was At Home During Flu Despite MAGA Claims He Was In Ohio Mental Facility appeared first on Joe.My.Go…
Talarico Releases Video Showing He Was Home
“Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico’s campaign shared security camera footage that appears to show Talarico at his home in Texas for the first eight days of this month — pushing back on claims that Talarico was hiding the reasons for his disappearance,” CBS News reports. “The eight timestamped images — which include watermarks from […]
Talarico was at home in Texas during campaign trail absence, photos appear to show
James Talarico's campaign shared security camera footage with CBS News that appears to show him at his home in Texas for the first eight days of this month — pushing back on claims that Talarico was hiding the reasons for his disappearance.
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