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The Democratic candidate in Texas’s U.S. Senate race, state Rep. James Talarico, brushed aside insults elevated by President Trump and his Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
“I honestly get the sense that people across the spectrum, across the state are tired of this politics as professional wrestling, right? You got these old guys lathered up in their fake tan, throwing corny nicknames at each other,” Talarico told MS NOW’s Eugene Daniels in a new interview that aired on Saturday morning.
The Democrat said these insults do not address the issues he is campaigning on, such as affordability.
“What people are hungry for is elected officials who are going to do the work, who are going to bring both parties together and pass legislation that’s actually going to make their lives easier and better and less stressful,” he said. “And I’m putting my money on that. I really am.”
Daniels asked the candidate about attacks on his masculinity, specifically Paxton’s “Low-T Talarico” insult.
“Honestly, I had to look up what that meant,” Talarico said. “I don’t think guys my age are really concerned about that kind of thing, but I think that these nicknames and these personal attacks don’t actually meet the needs of Texans.”
Talarico won the state’s Democratic primary in March, and he will face off against Paxton in the November race to replace incumbent GOP Sen. John Cornyn.
He said that attacks from Republican leaders “exposes the fact that they have no clue how to get this economy back on track.”
“They have no solutions to lower people’s costs and raise their pay,” he continued. “So, if they have no affirmative argument to make to voters, I think that is a good sign for our chances in November.”
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