Oct 13, 2026 · 41 min · 16 segments
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Talarico finally speaks, and I think he just made things worse, says Matt Margolis.
Texas State Representative James Talarico finally spoke out about his two-week disappearance from the campaign trail, and his softball interview with NBC's Phil Prazen raised more questions than it answered.
Sortor and Ryne Amacher gave Talarico until 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday to explain his absence, or they would expose the truth.
The Talarico campaign didn't respond, and the recording was posted after the deadline passed.
On the call, Amacher asks whether the facility has any, uh-- excuse me, has anything, yes, for James Talarico.
"It looks like he was discharged this evening," an unidentified female employee says.
Absent from the campaign trail for some people say two weeks, other people say it was just nine days.
Now, th-this, this is relevant because here we are, what? Uh, election day is just, I think, three weeks.
Is that three weeks away? So there are a lot of things to do at the end of a campaign, especially in a race that's presumably as tied as the one between, uh, James Talarico and Ken Paxton.
So you would think that you'd be out there campaigning, making as many stops as possible, all this sort of stuff, um, to get out there And to get as many votes for yourself as you can.
Talarico finally speaks, and I think he just made things worse, says Matt Margolis.
Texas State Representative James Talarico finally spoke out about his two-week disappearance from the campaign trail, and his softball interview with NBC's Phil Prazen raised more questions than it answered.
Sortor and Ryne Amacher gave Talarico until 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday to explain his absence, or they would expose the truth.
The Talarico campaign didn't respond, and the recording was posted after the deadline passed.
On the call, Amacher asks whether the facility has any, uh-- excuse me, has anything, yes, for James Talarico.
"It looks like he was discharged this evening," an unidentified female employee says.
Absent from the campaign trail for some people say two weeks, other people say it was just nine days.
Now, th-this, this is relevant because here we are, what? Uh, election day is just, I think, three weeks.
Is that three weeks away? So there are a lot of things to do at the end of a campaign, especially in a race that's presumably as tied as the one between, uh, James Talarico and Ken Paxton.
So you would think that you'd be out there campaigning, making as many stops as possible, all this sort of stuff, um, to get out there And to get as many votes for yourself as you can.
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