Democrats keep wishing upon a star that they can flip one of Texas's Senate seats. This year, their star is named James Talarico, a former seminarian currently serving in the state House of Representatives.
Democrats' hopes are up because Republicans tossed incumbent Senator Cornyn in favor of scandal-ridden Texas Attorney General Kenneth Paxton, indicted for fraud, and impeached by the state house but not convicted of abusing the power of his office and accepting bribes. He has been roundly criticized for a plea deal he struck for a politically-connected pedophile to serve only a single day in jail. (He's also a serial adulterer, but nobody besides Mrs. Paxton cares about that kind of thing any more.)
Without anything Republicans can say in favor of Mr. Paxton other than he has the enthusiastic endorsement of likewise ethically lacking Donald Trump, the GOP's talking point is to question Talarico's manhood. They seized on his having ordered a pair of vegetarian breakfast tacos to falsely label him a "soy boy vegan"; they pretend that he's gay, forcing his girlfriend to be more public about their relationship than she wanted to be.
Paxton himself calls his rival "Low-T Talarico," "Tofu Talarico," and "Talafreako." Trump declared his assessment that Talarico “can’t get elected as a vegan in Texas.” Senator Ted Cruz quipped that Talarico risks getting blown away by any stiff breeze. White House Deputy Ghoul of Staff Stephen Miller lied that Talarico is "the first transgender Senate candidate."
Yeah, these Republican hate-mongers think that kind of thing is funny. Like that roid-rage meathead calling Michelle Obama a man at the White Waffle House Cage Match on Trump's octogenarian birthday party on Sunday.
For the record, she isn't. Not that there's something wrong with that.
I’d post some photos of the current First Lady here, but slutshaming is wrong.
Anyway, it's hard for Talarico to deny being gay, vegan, or transgender without offending gays, vegans, or transes (what the hell is the plural of trans anyway?). His campaign did tweet an “Official Statement from James Talarico on Vegan Accusations” that consisted entirely of a picture of him taking a bite out of a turkey leg at the Texas State Fair.
He has yet to drop his drawers to disprove the transgender slur.
The right-wing echo chamber wouldn't accept that as proof anyway.
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