GOP Smear Of Dem Senatorial Candidate Backfires Badly

A GOP strategist thought he had found the perfect way to attack Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico – but it backfired badly. So badly that even other conservatives said it went too far.

Talarico, a 36-year-old Christian minister and Texas State Representative, is currently leading Republican attorney general of Texas Ken Paxton 44-42, according to Real Clear Politics, and the GOP would love to prevent him from winning the seat in November.

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Party strategist Bobby LaValley attempted to do just that on Wednesday when he published one of Talarico’s Facebook posts on social media in an attempt to make him look bad. The post was from May 2012, when Talarico was a schoolteacher in San Antonio. In it, he featured a picture of the University of Texas with this caption: “Looking forward to spending my birthday with the 6th grade boys at UT tomorrow!”

The context of Talarico’s original post was that he was taking his students on a field trip to the university.

LaValley decided to make things look more sinister. He wrote: “No teacher, let alone a U.S. Senate candidate, should ever post that.”

However, the response to his effort was overwhelmingly negative. Even people who might agree with him thought the post was weak sauce:

Talarico’s campaign has inspired some extreme reactions from the MAGA crowd. Back in March, Brooks Potteiger, an evangelical pastor who is reportedly Pete Hegseth’s closest spiritual adviser, called the Texas Democrat “a wolf,” a “demon” and “a snake” on a podcast, and said he prays that “God kills him.”