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James Talarico isn’t vegan. So why is the GOP so fixated?

Trump and Paxton have turned a false claim about his diet into a masculinity test. Why does eating meat matter?

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Salon· Oct 14, 1:00 PMJames Talarico isn’t vegan. So why is the GOP so fixated?

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James Talarico returns to campaign trail at ACL festival after illness spurred GOP calls for “proof of life”Republican Ken Paxton made hay over the Democrat’s nine-day spell between public appearances, while right-wing commentators ran with unverified theories and dismissed that Talarico's recovery could have been hindered by his Type I diabetes.

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Vice President Vance set to visit Texas for second time in two weeksTexas has taken center stage this election cycle as Democrats seek to make inroads up and down the ballot.

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Watch the Hosts of ‘The View’ Openly Campaign for Texas Democrat James Talarico on the Air (VIDEO)This week, Ana Navarro, Whoopi Goldberg, and the rest of the crew on 'The View' openly campaigned for far left Texas Democrat James Talarico on the air, in…

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Trump returns to Texas, where Republicans are strugglingRepublicans are spending heavily to defend a state the president won comfortably two years ago.

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JD Vance calls out Talarico on 6-year-olds and hormones: ‘His real religion is about the radical left’JD Vance has a message for Texas voters about James Talarico: Look past the Christian rhetoric and pay attention to what he actually believes. While speaking to a Texas crowd, Vance argued that Talarico’s “real religion” has nothing to do with what you hear in church on Sunday or “the redemptive power of Christ’s sacrifice.” “It’s about crazy left-wing…

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