Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - James Talarico’s Texas Rebrand： Faith, Politics, and the Democrat “Golden Boy”

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00:00:30.000 there is simply no normal man in the democrat party anymore they decided that they needed to

00:00:39.940 do a better job of speaking to normal men and the three white guys they picked to do it are

00:00:45.540 tim walls james tallarico and graham platner we're going to spend today talking about james

00:00:51.180 tallarico who has been all over the news all over social media the past week since ken paxton won

00:00:56.940 the primary, again, just last week. Democrats, they're trying to sell James Tallarico as like

00:01:04.080 this fresh and reasonable faith-based guy's guy who can flip Texas, but the internet has receipts.

00:01:13.560 And some of these clips are almost too crazy to believe. All right, let's get into it. As I said,

00:01:19.200 James Tallarico, they're trying to sell him as like this eighth generation Texan. He's a former

00:01:23.920 middle school teacher. He's a preacher. He's a pastor, or at least so he says on paper. It sounds

00:01:30.080 like the Democrats have finally found someone who could maybe possibly appeal beyond, if we're

00:01:36.920 looking at the state of Texas, just Austin. But as I said, the internet never forgets. Let's start

00:01:42.480 by just looking at some of the policies he supports and some of the things that he doesn't

00:01:46.800 support. His platform, if you will. James Tallarico is for state income tax for Texas.

00:01:53.500 He is for gun confiscation. He is for abortion on demand, wide open borders, amnesty for all

00:01:58.140 illegals, sex chain surgery for kids, pushing the LGBTQ agenda in schools, men and women's sports

00:02:03.740 and restrooms, packing SCOTUS with leftist judges, abolishing the electoral college, abolishing 0.97

00:02:08.860 prisons and the incarceration of criminals. This clown is one of the worst candidates imaginable 0.99

00:02:14.060 running in texas all right let's start with clip number one first thing on james tallarico's mind 0.98

00:02:20.180 when he wakes up trans kids something that you love that's not family or friends um i love i'm

00:02:29.960 just saying this because it's on my mind the trans children who showed up yesterday at the state

00:02:35.920 capitol to advocate for their humanity they shouldn't have to but it was an inspiration to

00:02:40.940 watch right out of the gate he was asked first thing you think about besides your family bro

00:02:46.880 said trans kids not jobs not border security not inflation not fentanyl that's killing families

00:02:53.860 no just trans kids this dude wakes up thinking about chopping off healthy functioning body parts

00:03:01.420 of minors i mean this is like level 99 pandering that he's telling us exactly what his thoughts

00:03:09.820 are and when they reveal themselves to you, believe them. Not to mention, who does this

00:03:14.960 actually speak to in Texas? It's creepy. It's weird on lots of levels. I have like the major

00:03:22.000 ick factor going on with this guy. And what a weird way to show love, right? He mentions being

00:03:27.860 at the Capitol. You have to imagine that they're advocating for certain legislation. So his way of

00:03:34.760 showing love is for advocating for them to be able to inject themselves with unnatural harmful

00:03:41.320 chemicals and substances and to cut off again healthy functioning body parts weird way to show

00:03:47.780 love and i'm going to say it not a lot of people like to but i'm going to there's no such thing as

00:03:52.280 trans kids uh there are people who believe that they're trans certainly those people exist but

00:03:57.780 there is no such thing as a trans child, because again, you cannot biologically, anatomically,

00:04:05.000 alter yourself to be the opposite sex. So just wanted to put that out there. Moving on to clip 0.94

00:04:12.340 number two, God is non-binary, according to James Tallarico. Is both masculine and feminine

00:04:19.260 and everything in between. God is non-binary. So what about all the times in the Bible that 1.00

00:04:27.380 it refers to God as our heavenly father, our father who art in heaven. We're just going to

00:04:34.500 ignore that, James Tallarico. I think the concerning thing here is, again, that this is

00:04:39.140 someone who went to seminary, meaning he studied the Bible. I'm sure some of you have seen the

00:04:44.420 clips of James Tallarico on Joe Rogan. It even convinced Joe Rogan, who, I mean, is a self-described

00:04:51.860 young Christian. I don't even know if, honestly, he would call himself a Christian, but you can

00:04:56.460 tell, if you are a loyal watcher of his show, that he has toyed with the idea of wanting to

00:05:03.000 understand the Bible more. That's where James Tallarico, I think, is a threat. Outside of even

00:05:08.880 the political effect that he could potentially have, how he's affecting minds of young childlike

00:05:14.940 Christians. So deeply concerning what he's doing and what he's speaking to is not theology,

00:05:22.820 Despite what he would like to say, it's progressive politics wearing like this clerical collar.

00:05:30.380 Christianity has always had a very clear understanding of God as a father with masculine imagery throughout Scripture for a reason.

00:05:41.280 Rewriting the divine to fit these 2020s gender theory.

00:05:47.400 It's not inclusive, like they say.

00:05:49.480 really, this blending of faith with the spirit of age is a mockery of God, our Father. And I

00:05:56.840 actually think that James Tallarico is going to be a problem for a lot of Christian voters who do

00:06:01.400 know the Bible, because whether you're Latino or black or white, most Christians don't agree with

00:06:08.240 that interpretation of faith and of Christianity. He's recently tried to recant from these past

00:06:15.620 statements. You have to understand many of these clips that we're showing are from several years

00:06:19.200 ago, again, peak woke era. He's kind of slowly started to distance himself from that, even in

00:06:25.320 the past week, began to recant from these statements saying, actually when asked about

00:06:29.740 this clip specifically, that he was being intentionally provocative by calling God

00:06:34.720 non-binary. His response was pretty revealing. He says, looking back at some of these old

00:06:39.480 statements from years ago, maybe I would word them differently or communicate them differently,

00:06:43.520 but the values that I hold are still the same. So, in other words, he will moderate his rhetoric

00:06:50.180 in order to better disguise these beliefs that he still holds in order to get elected, right?

00:06:56.240 Don't get it confused. Despite the fact that he's trying to distance himself,

00:06:59.840 he still wholeheartedly believes that God is non-binary. Okay, clip number three, six biological 0.69

00:07:06.020 sexes. I want us all to be aware of is that modern science obviously recognizes that there

00:07:12.160 are many more than two biological sexes in fact there are six which honestly representative

00:07:18.600 hefner surprised me too surprised me too because i i am you know i'm not well versed in this

00:07:24.680 this issue area i'm not a scientist i'm a politician a lot worse than a scientist

00:07:28.880 is the modern science in the room with us uh again it's just like atonji brown jackson who

00:07:34.940 said she couldn't answer what a woman is because she says she's not a biologist here you have james

00:07:39.220 Tallarico saying he doesn't actually know or he didn't know until prior to educating himself how

00:07:44.800 many sexes there were because he's not a scientist. Guess what? I am also not a scientist and I am

00:07:51.160 confident and I can emphatically say that there are only two sexes, male and female. Has anyone 1.00

00:07:59.380 pressed James Tallarico on specifically outlining for us what these six sexes are? I'm curious at

00:08:07.620 that. I don't think I've seen him declare what they are. But what I do know is that this is not

00:08:14.020 a nuanced debate. I have two sisters and one brother. There is no other option out there.

00:08:21.760 It is boy, girl, male, female, man, woman. That's it, James Tallarico. And honestly,

00:08:27.160 if you can't emphatically say that, if you cannot confidently say that there are only two sexes,

00:08:33.040 that men cannot get pregnant, that tampons do not belong in boys' bathrooms,

00:08:37.620 then respectfully, I won't believe a single word that comes out of your mouth on any topic

00:08:42.260 because you have thrown your credibility out of the window.

00:08:45.760 In the nearly 250 years we've been established as a country,

00:08:48.480 we have never struggled to understand that there are two sexes

00:08:52.120 until people like James Tallarico come along.

00:08:56.560 All right, another clip. 1.00

00:08:58.120 Jesus Christ was a radical feminist. 1.00

00:09:00.880 Did they teach you in Sunday school? 0.85

00:09:03.040 that Jesus Christ himself was a radical demonist.

00:09:33.040 have to wait. Dutton Ranch, new series now streaming on Paramount+. I just like, they just

00:09:40.360 are like, what the Democratic Party is doing, what James Tallarico is doing, is they're putting a

00:09:45.880 bunch of hyper polarizing words together and just saying it and hoping that no one questions what

00:09:54.380 he's actually, like what he's getting to in that phrase. They do it all the time, right? Like the

00:09:59.900 whole, you do you, love is love, trans women are women, Jesus Christ was a radical feminist. 0.99

00:10:06.820 Like, it doesn't even really make sense when you put your brain to it, but they're just hoping

00:10:11.000 because they use the buzzwords, you're not actually going to push back on it and inquire what

00:10:15.660 he's actually getting to. Here's what I'll say. Respecting women in a biblical way, it doesn't

00:10:22.680 require rewriting the gospels okay jesus what he did was he elevated women in a patriarchal time

00:10:30.700 without dismantling creation's order so what we saw here is like a classic turning christ into a

00:10:39.120 mascot for modern leftism instead of submitting politics to transcendent and biblical truth

00:10:47.620 All right. Next clip. If you didn't know, the trans community needs abortion care, too.

00:10:53.820 Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care, too.

00:10:59.520 Again, another one of just saying words that sound good.

00:11:03.280 He was able to combine abortion and gender ideology to spit out this sentence that leaves you scratching your head.

00:11:11.000 I actually showed my grandma this clip because I feel like grandparents, honestly, are a pretty

00:11:16.040 good indicator of what is too woke. Okay. I showed my grandma this clip and she was so

00:11:21.840 entirely and utterly confused as she often is when it comes to stories and news articles 0.98

00:11:28.280 pertaining to gender ideology. She'll see these, especially I showed her one the other day

00:11:33.860 and it was a man who identified as a woman who had committed some heinous crime and they showed

00:11:39.700 his mugshot and it very much looked like a man right as they do and so i showed her this story

00:11:44.740 but the story that in the article they were using she pronouns when referring to this trans woman

00:11:50.260 and my grandma's reading this story like riley is this a man or is it a woman i'm confused because

00:11:55.040 they're saying she but the photo is very clearly a man it's a he so if you need like a good woke

00:12:01.620 indicator ask your grandparents ask your grandma that's what i do and i showed my grandma this

00:12:06.300 video and she's like, what actually is he even referring to? I'm confused. Me too. Gammy. That

00:12:13.400 sentence alone, our trans community needs abortion care too. It just shows how far language and 0.96

00:12:21.660 biology and women's issues get stretched because men, they don't need abortion care. It is only 0.91

00:12:30.540 women, which that's just for the phrasing of it. I certainly don't believe abortion is health care. 0.96

00:12:37.280 This is where ideology, it just devours plain English and common sense. This one, this next

00:12:45.980 video, it might be my favorite thus far. It's James Tallarico speaking to his neighbors with

00:12:52.280 a uterus. Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state. One of our 0.94

00:12:59.280 neighbors with the uterus to be able to control their own body our neighbors with a uterus one

00:13:03.500 of our neighbors with the uterus yeah so he says this often like it's not just say a one time in

00:13:09.260 front of a certain crowd like as opposed to saying women james tallarico calls us neighbors with a

00:13:15.660 uterus uh that's exactly when me and louie got married you know we're at the altar uh he gazed

00:13:22.680 lovingly into my eyes and called me the most beautiful neighbor with a uterus that he'd ever

00:13:28.260 seen. This is crazy. No real person speaks like this. It is a totally manufactured candidate

00:13:36.640 running a very manufactured campaign. And quite frankly, we as women are tired. We are tired of

00:13:44.660 the disrespect. You demand access to our spaces. You demand the language by which we call you.

00:13:50.460 You reprimand us if we don't do all of this with a big old smile on our face.

00:13:54.720 and then you demean us by reducing us down to our biological functions and capacities by calling us

00:14:03.540 neighbors with a uterus. You would never see this be done to men, by the way, which I'm not trying

00:14:11.400 to have a super liberal stance on this, like, oh, why is this only happening to women? But honestly,

00:14:16.440 think about it. They don't do this to men. And I think we can unpack that. Why aren't they doing

00:14:21.300 this to men. You would never see someone like James Tallarico or anyone for that matter stand

00:14:26.140 in front of a pulpit or wherever he was and say, our neighbors with a prostate. Why would you not

00:14:31.600 see this done to men? Because men would laugh James Tallarico off the stage, no matter if they're

00:14:36.200 a Democrat, Republican, white, black, old, young, they would laugh at this. They would not put up

00:14:40.700 with this. So that number one is men tend to follow the traditional and very well understood

00:14:48.280 characteristics and traits that men on average have. They're more aggressive, they're more

00:14:53.520 dominant, they're more assertive. I don't say that as a bad thing or a good thing. Actually,

00:14:57.160 it is really a good thing. Women tend to be more emotionally driven, more apologetic, 1.00

00:15:02.520 more empathetic, also a good thing, right? I think those things have been weaponized 1.00

00:15:06.560 against us. But it's what makes us such great mothers and wives and sisters and friends is

00:15:12.700 because we are emotionally driven. They're weaponizing it against us because they know

00:15:17.960 that we won't push back when we're called a neighbor with a uterus. And I think another

00:15:21.900 reason that we're not seeing this done to men is because you think about the gender ideology

00:15:27.200 movement. Those same dominant, aggressive men who are now proclaiming to be women,

00:15:32.980 they're really still the same dominant, aggressive men that they've always been.

00:15:36.240 And they're demanding that we call them that. Women, on the other hand, let's say you have a

00:15:40.280 woman who transitions to a man. She's not going to go into a man's space and demand that men call 1.00

00:15:45.880 her a certain thing because it's still the same emotionally driven, apologetic, empathetic woman.

00:15:52.440 You see what I'm saying? Does that make sense here? You would never see this happen to men.

00:15:57.080 We've been called a lot over the past few years as women, as mothers, right? Like birthing people,

00:16:04.960 bleeders and chest feeders and menstruators and inseminated persons. That was actually my 1.00

00:16:12.400 favorite. That's like the most dehumanizing thing you could possibly refer to a woman as, but 1.00

00:16:17.860 Governor Evers in Wisconsin attempted to change in his state statute, in state law and state code,

00:16:25.980 the word mother to inseminated persons. That's absurd. And to even further make the point that

00:16:33.700 I just made. I remember when this, the red line of this bill came out and I was reading it and I

00:16:38.540 come across where they, you know, redlined mother and they change it to inseminated persons. I

00:16:42.320 immediately stop in my tracks and I'm like, oh my gosh, what are they about to change fathers to? 0.95

00:16:47.180 Because the counterpart for inseminated persons would be like inseminator. I don't know. No, 0.67

00:16:54.020 I keep reading. I get to the word father and they'd exit out and change it to natural parent.

00:16:58.440 Again, now tell me more specifically, there's not a war on women. Yes, certainly there's a war on truth, there's a war on children, but the war on women cannot be understated. 0.52

00:17:09.660 Also, with this line of phrasing, it remains unclear what the woke Democrat uses to describe a woman who's had a hysterectomy and therefore no longer has a uterus.

00:17:22.580 also remains unclear of how this description aligns with the values of his far left progressive

00:17:30.220 allies as they believe men who certainly do not have a uterus can also be women

00:17:36.760 insane i wonder how many of the six genders the six sexes that he says there are have uterus

00:17:44.800 uteruses uteri maybe that's the plural of uterus who knows all i know is that there's two sexes

00:17:51.620 and only women have uterus and we don't want to be called a neighbor with a uterus, 1.00

00:17:55.700 just women will suffice. One more tweet that I want to read to you guys. Again, all of this 0.56

00:18:02.020 is surfacing. This one right here is from 2020 from James Tallarico. It says, white skin gives

00:18:07.880 me and every white American immunity from the virus, but we spread it wherever we go through 0.98

00:18:12.520 our words, our actions, and our systems. We don't have to be showing symptoms like a white hood or 0.81

00:18:17.000 Confederate flag to be contagious. What is the virus, you might ask? Racism. That's the virus

00:18:24.340 that James Tallarico is, I guess, self-admitting to being infected with. Now, he goes on to say

00:18:29.360 that the only cure is diagnosing the virus within ourselves and taking dramatic actions to contain

00:18:33.780 the spread. The first small step is proclaiming loudly and unequivocally that black lives matter.

00:18:39.700 And all I really have to say to that is, no, I actually don't give you, James Tallarico, permission to apologize on behalf of me for my whiteness, because I'm not sorry. Don't drag me in with your self-admitted racist views, because unlike you, I'm not a racist.

00:19:01.780 I don't look at the first thing I think when I look at someone is not the color of their skin

00:19:07.940 because again I'm not a racist your line of thinking very much makes you one and by the way 0.73

00:19:14.380 you ran against a black woman and you beat her Jasmine Crockett how in the world can you sleep 0.97

00:19:19.880 at night James Tallarico how very racist of you to run against a black woman knowing that your 0.99

00:19:26.520 whiteness would give you an advantage. His response, and this has been the case across 0.94

00:19:32.480 the board with the Democrats, their response to racism is systemic racism. Again, they focus on

00:19:41.120 race. They divide by race. They choose sides by race. That is racism. You have reduced my skin

00:19:47.340 color to a disease in that tweet. And yet you don't see how deeply racist even that is.

00:19:54.760 newsflash being white it doesn't make you racist you know what does is being racist that's what

00:20:03.200 makes someone racist and by the way i haven't heard james tallarico say anything about their

00:20:10.580 southern poverty law center actually funding these white supremacist rallies and i don't think we

00:20:18.120 will. But I'll have my ears on alert. OK, now on to the general election. It's Ken Paxton, as we've

00:20:26.520 talked about, as I know you guys have seen in the news, who I endorse, who I'm super duper thrilled

00:20:30.740 as one. He has been in terms of his previous role or I guess even still his current role as state

00:20:36.120 attorney general in Texas. He has been bar none the most aggressive in pursuing litigation as it

00:20:43.500 pertains to free speech, religious liberty, our rights as women, parental rights, the safeguarding

00:20:49.800 of children. He has been the best in the country, really hands down. With that being said, I've seen

00:20:55.840 online where several voters, I'm assuming people in Texas, actually, realistically, they're probably

00:21:01.540 not from Texas at all. They say they wouldn't vote for Kim Paxton because of certain baggage

00:21:06.120 that he brings to the table. Here's what I will say in regard to that. It is always, 100% of the

00:21:13.900 time, unless Jesus Christ himself is on the ballot, it is always going to be the lesser of two evils.

00:21:19.040 That is always your options, okay? Again, unless Jesus Christ is on the ballot, that's who you're

00:21:23.760 voting for, is the lesser of two evils. Now, ask yourself, which would you rather? Someone like

00:21:28.480 Ken Paxton, who, yes, does have baggage as it pertains to his marriage or what have you, or

00:21:34.920 someone like James Tallarico who wants the southern border to be a welcome mat to illegal

00:21:41.440 aliens and a slew of other things. Always going to be the lesser of two evils. Use your best

00:21:47.560 judgment. Use your discernment to make the right choice. I don't think that James Tallarico has a

00:21:54.720 prayer chance of winning Texas. Really, I say that. Being from Tennessee, I didn't think that

00:22:01.420 Afton Bean. You remember that girl? She ran for Congress in the Davidson County area. I think it's 0.95

00:22:07.160 the seventh congressional seat. We had a special election a few months ago, and her entire campaign 0.93

00:22:11.960 was for the Nashville area, for Davidson County, was that she hates Nashville.

00:22:17.540 And she didn't win, praise God for it, but it was alarmingly close. So I don't think that James

00:22:24.120 Tallarico could win Texas, but you never know. I don't think the liberals think he will either.

00:22:28.760 I think they know that they can't win Texas. And so they run candidates like Tallarico not to win.

00:22:35.040 That's not really the intention, but the intention is to move the needle. You see things like this

00:22:39.640 in Florida or Tennessee as well. This really tends to be the core problem for Democrats.

00:22:46.740 They want to sound normal and moderate and faith friendly, especially in the general election time.

00:22:53.980 but their own words. The videos and clips I just showed you, the clips that you've seen

00:22:59.000 online for the past week and that I hope we will see through the election, these are unfiltered

00:23:05.040 clips. Unaltered, not AI. These are real clips from Tallarico's past. And it keeps exposing how

00:23:12.820 radical the underlying worldview of the Democratic Party really is. You cannot rebrand extremism as

00:23:21.600 Texas values as faith, family, and freedom when the receipts contradict the branding every single

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00:25:01.260 So why does this one Texas race matter beyond the Lone Star State? 0.57

00:25:06.860 Because it's not just about Tallarico's radical record.

00:25:11.340 Really, what I think this race is showing is it's a symptom of deeper realignment happening in American politics and a really powerful demonstration of where real influence lies on the right.

00:25:25.000 The reason this matters is because this race, it shows something else.

00:25:29.900 It shows that Donald Trump's endorsement still might be the most powerful force in Republican politics right now.

00:25:38.300 Let's look at the scoreboard.

00:25:39.640 Okay. Trump-backed candidates are stacking wins in 2026 GOP primaries. I think he's endorsed

00:25:48.200 118 candidates and all 118 candidates that he's endorsed have won. He endorsed Ken Paxton over

00:25:56.440 John Cornyn in the Texas Senate. It was a pretty late Trump endorsement, but it was a big deal

00:26:02.020 because Cornyn was the longtime incumbent. He had been in the Senate for like decades, I think. So

00:26:10.000 what this race really showed was establishment versus outsider, what the American people want,

00:26:16.500 what the voters want, and certainly as we saw what President Trump wanted. Ken Paxton gave

00:26:22.620 John Cornyn a real opportunity to show Texas voters that he wasn't just campaigning on faith,

00:26:29.580 family freedom. He was actually living by it, attempting to achieve and accomplish the America

00:26:34.720 First agenda by saying, look, if you will come out and say, I will support the SAVE Act, I'll

00:26:39.780 drop out right now. John Cornyn couldn't do it. I think that was probably a large part in why

00:26:44.200 President Trump found it necessary to get involved as the SAVE America Act has been a huge priority

00:26:49.120 of his. Okay, now let's look at Thomas Massey in Kentucky. President Trump, he backed Ed

00:26:55.380 Gallrain, ultimately, Massey ended up losing. Massey, if you know anything about him, he spent

00:27:02.040 years, I think certainly the past four or so years, really carving an independent-minded

00:27:09.480 lane that often looked like constant opposition to the broader movement. Whether you like Thomas

00:27:16.740 Massey or not, he really was not a team player. Voters noticed, President Trump noticed, and

00:27:23.020 Thomas Massey is out. You've got Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, who failed to make even the runoff

00:27:30.980 after President Trump backed another candidate. And why I think a large part of this was the

00:27:35.620 impeachment vote was really looming over Cassidy. President Trump, he does not forget things and

00:27:41.880 neither do the American people. As of late May, again, President Trump, he's undefeated and

00:27:47.580 completed 2026 GOP primaries for endorsed candidates across all levels. That is not

00:27:53.340 fading influence, as many left-leaning outlets would like you to believe. That is a consolidated

00:27:58.380 base making its priorities very, very clear. So I think a lot of President Trump's power

00:28:04.160 over the past, gosh, decade now have come from his charisma and his authenticity and how he's

00:28:13.280 almost relatable, which really makes no sense. He shouldn't be relatable. He's a billionaire,

00:28:17.120 right who lives in mar-a-lago like there isn't a whole lot that president trump can relate with

00:28:23.400 your average voter your average common sense working american on but nonetheless he's able

00:28:28.940 to accomplish it in an uncanny amazing way but i don't think it's about just that anymore

00:28:35.720 it's become really this this proxy for a set of non-negotiables america first priorities

00:28:43.620 skepticism of endless institutional power rewarding loyalty to voters over dc consultants

00:28:49.980 even with controversies like the one i mentioned with ken paxton around some candidates the base

00:28:57.980 is prioritizing alignment it seems with that america first agenda over perfection the future

00:29:05.120 of the republican party it's not going to be decided by who's been in washington the longest

00:29:10.360 or who has, you know, kind of the consultant polished answers.

00:29:16.540 I think this past week showed us how it's going to be decided

00:29:19.820 by who understands the voters, who respects the base,

00:29:23.820 who fights for the issues that normal Americans really care about, 0.75

00:29:27.620 which is secure borders, it's fair sports for girls, 0.73

00:29:31.340 it's economic opportunity, biological truth, religious liberty, 0.88

00:29:35.100 free speech, parental rights, the safeguarding of children.

00:29:37.840 A great example of that energy, by the way, is Spencer Pratt. He has been fantastic in all of

00:29:44.740 his ads and all of his campaigns and all of his delivery when he's doing media, when he's on Fox

00:29:50.580 News. There's this level of authenticity about him and calling things out without apology.

00:29:57.600 Trump's endorsement power is the same way, but it's not just about one man. It's about a Republican

00:30:02.900 Party whose voters are done rewarding weakness and are coalescing around fighters. Democrats,

00:30:10.500 they just keep lining up like a freak show and trying to sell them as regular guys,

00:30:16.940 whether it's Tallarico, whether it's Graham Plattner in Maine, the guy with like a Nazi-linked 0.99

00:30:22.360 tattoo history who's got insane, disgusting stories of masturbating and porta-potties 0.97

00:30:28.080 in this redemption arc that the media seems to love left-leaning media. Democrats, they continue 0.99

00:30:34.380 to platform him. People like Mamdani, although charming, radical as all be it. Miranda Devine

00:30:41.000 actually nailed this in her recent New York Post piece in saying that these kind of democratic

00:30:44.800 disasters only make things much worse for them long term. Voters, we see through the disguise,

00:30:51.600 we're tired of it. And it's not just that MAGA is connecting or uniting, it's that the

00:30:57.880 alternative keeps proving itself to be unpalatable. I actually think there's lots of problems in the

00:31:03.880 conservative movement right now, but when you have people as crazy as James Tallarico, it allows us

00:31:09.020 to be able to unite together. Not because we're doing fantastic things, although we are, and we've

00:31:14.280 seen great success in victories and wins, but it's because the other side is crazy.

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Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - June 02, 2026

James Talarico’s Texas Rebrand： Faith, Politics, and the Democrat “Golden Boy”

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