May 28, 2026
Fox News SINKS As Desperate Attack Against James Talarico Unravels
Fox News sinks to embarrassing levels with their desperate attempts to attack Texas Senate candidate James Talarico prove their panic as Talarico surges in polls. John Iadarola and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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He's also 37 and not married. Let's get into
this. He says just recently that he has a
girlfriend and they've been together for four
years. And he called her his best friend and
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she was his rock. And he's not revealing her
identity because he wants to respect her privacy
and keep her safe during the campaign. She live
in Canada. If the campaign has only been going
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on for less than a year and they've been dating
for four years, why haven't we ever seen this
woman before? Basically what I'm saying is
this, she exists. uh We're gonna find out because
if he wins, are they gonna have a coming out
party or is she still gonna stay the secret
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girlfriend? And is this totally not fake girlfriend
also a vegan? Again, this is fun. This is
politics, everybody. So James Tallarico is popular.
He's polling well. We got nothing to attack
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him on when it comes to the policy. We know
that our guy Ken Paxton is, he's corrupt. He's
a Trump butt licker. We know that he cheated
on his wife. We don't want to talk about him.
So let's pretend that James Tallarico is a vegan,
which we know he's not. And let's pretend that
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he's gay. That's what this is. Let's not play
around. The whole thing is, what if he's gay?
Again, they never ever, ever, ever, ever have
anything other than identity. That is all that
the right has when it comes to attacks. So what
if he's gay? Wouldn't that be, he's 37 and
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he's not even married. He's not like me, Jesse
Waters, who's been a successful family man
my whole life. I mean, I was married and then
I humped another woman and broke up my marriage.
wrecked that home and then got married to the
person I cheated with. I'm the one that you
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should be patterning your relationships on.
I'm the person with the moral standing to
mock the relationships of others. I made a
sacred vow to my wife and then I boned another
woman. Learn from me, Jesse Waters. That's what
I learn every day by watching The Five and
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all of the people at the table. who every time
he talks about marriage immediately naturally
think about the fact that he cheated on his
wife. None of them can say anything because
they have to be around him and they know that
he'd probably freak out. So that's pretty
fun. And also, he does have a good point. Why
would James Tallarico want to stop the identity
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of his girlfriend from coming out? I mean,
it's not like the right would be weird about
it. It's not like they'd say or do weird things
in relationship to her. Obviously that's sarcasm.
Look at the way that they're acting already
when they don't even know who she is. So anyway,
all of this is pathetic. All of this is stripped
of substance, has nothing to do with the state
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of the country, the state of Texas. They're
not even pretending that they can defend their
candidate, Paxton. But what it's lacking so
far is some truly deep irony. So if the narrative
is going to be they've got this guy and he's
secretly gay and he's pretending not to be.
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What would make this more fun? I know, let's
bring in Benny Johnson. I'm no political consultant,
Jesse, but here's three things you could ask
him to defeat him on a debate stage. He says
there's six genders. Well, why don't you name
them? You say you have a girlfriend, why don't
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you name her? And you say that Jesus is pro-abortion.
So how do you square that with thou shalt not
kill the Ten Commandments something I'm. Pretty
sure that Jesus wanted you to uphold. So once
again, the reason why Democrats are failing
is because they've given up on masculinity.
They've given up on testosterone. They've given
up entirely for effeminate, estrogenetic, uh
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catty, and totally embarrassing candidates
like Beto and Beta here. And most importantly,
the American people know what leadership looks
like. It looks like President Trump. winning
119 out of 119 at 100 % endorsement record.
Donald Trump is winning across the board. He's
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showing strength. He's showing calm under fire,
and he's showing what the American public want.
Look, there's a lot that I don't like about
Jesse Watters. I do appreciate that he brought
in Benny Johnson for this. Cuz I think Jesse
Watters likes to mock the right wingers he
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brings on. When he brings on Stephen Miller,
and then he calls him a sexual matador, Steven,
buddy, he's slapping you across the face. Benny,
buddy, Benny, baby, can I call you that? He's
mocking you when he brings you on to talk about
this, buddy. He knows what you got going on.
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Everybody on the right, again, no shame. I
don't have a problem with it. I think all of
it's fine. And in fact, I would work and have
worked to help create a world where you'll
feel comfortable being who you are. But Jesse
Waters thinks it's funny. That's why he has
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brought you on to talk about this. Dude, you're
talking about masculinity and you just use
the term estrogenic. You incel ass bitch, what
are you talking about? Go lay in the tanning
bed a little bit longer and then tell me about
how you're a freaking cowboy or something.
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Ain't nothing masculine about you, man. I don't
know, I mean, your appreciation of men, I guess,
has something masculine about it, but not necessarily
in the way that you're posturing in this segment.
And again, There's nothing wrong with either
being gay or secretly being gay. The issue
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is that you know that Talarico isn't in the
same way that you know he's not a vegan and
he's not a vegetarian or whatever. And it looks
super weak when your entire campaign against
this guy is based on you pretending to believe
things that you know aren't true. And here
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is why they're squirming in this way. This Senate
poll, public policy polling. Tallerico up 45
to 38. Now, do I think that that's how all of
the polls are likely to look? No, I don't.
Do I believe that he's currently seven points
up? No, not especially. I think it's probably
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fairly tied. Texas has long been a red state.
Don't get it twisted. This is going to be a
very tight race. And even if Tallerico runs
a great campaign, he could end up losing.
Nothing should be taken for granted. You should
spend some time. manning the phones for Telerico.
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You should donate money to Telerico. If you
are in Texas, you better get your ass out and
vote for Telerico. If for no other reason then,
it will destroy the lives and brains of people
like Stephen Miller and Jesse Waters and Benny
Johnson and all of that. It'll be great. It'll
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also be super consequential for our state. But
again, and by the way, I know a lot of people
are worried that this sort of thing will work.
And maybe it will. There are a lot of pathetic
men that are as easy to manipulate politically.
as Jesse Waters and Benny Johnson clearly think
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they are. And if you're a Texas man, if you're
a Texas conservative or whatever, you have
real problems in your life, right? That's why
you're frustrated with politics. That's why
you want an outsider. That's why you tried Donald
Trump. But clearly things aren't working. The
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price of literally everything is up. Your barbecue
restaurants are shutting down. Small businesses
are being squeezed. And as you're considering
all of these issues that you face, Tallerico
and his meat or whatever, being gay, what relationship
does that have to literally any of this? And
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why is it that when your favorite media channel
has an opportunity to talk about the future
of the great state of Texas where I lived for
five years, where Jesse Waters wouldn't spend
five seconds or whatever, he loves the big city
of New York. That's where he likes to live.
Let's just be clear about that. Why is it that
they don't bring on Texans? They don't acknowledge
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your economic problems. They don't- acknowledge
the problems of the power grid. They acknowledge
literally any of that. Why is it that they're
only, Jesse Watters spent the entirety of yesterday
fantasizing about James Tallarico being gay.
Does that seem maybe slightly strange for
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a grown man to spend his time that way? Just
something to think about as we cruise into
this race.
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