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A June 2023 video clip of Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is in focus for the Texas Senate race after Fox News Digital resurfaced it.
The clip shows him laughing as he describes his church housing an undocumented mother and son who were close to being deported by ICE, and he says "Christianity is just another word for causing trouble." A recent Fox News poll has Talarico leading Republican opponent Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, in a seat both parties regard as critical.
The tape The clip is from Texas Impact's "Weekly Witness" show, recorded in June 2023. Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian and Democratic state representative, credited his church's history for drawing him into politics.
He described three episodes: LGBTQ rights advocacy in the 1990s, admitting an atheist member in the 2000s, and in the 2010s housing the undocumented family facing deportation.
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