Talarico Campaign Shares Time-Stamped Home Images Amid Absence Speculation
Time-stamped home security images show James Talarico was at his Austin house as a false Ohio treatment rumor spread online, campaign officials said.
- On Monday, Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico's campaign provided The New York Times with security footage showing him at his Austin home from Oct. 1 to Oct. 8, countering disappearance claims.
- Talarico was absent from the campaign trail for almost two weeks citing severe flu, while Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and online influencers amplified unfounded speculations he fled to Ohio for mental health treatment.
- The Lindner Center of Hope in Mason, Ohio, publicly wrote that Talarico "has never received treatment" there, while Talarico campaign spokesman J.T. Ennis called rumors "a lie designed to promote a pathetic conspiracy theory."
- Talarico reappeared in public on Friday, Oct. 9, greeting attendees at the Austin City Limits Music Festival following Paxton's demand for "proof of life."
- Times political reporter Bayliss Wagner noted the images emerged amid a "Wild West of misinformation" driven by online algorithms, as the Senate race remains bitter between Talarico and Paxton.
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NEWS HEADLINES: New Evidence Blows Up Viral Talarico Hospital Rumor — And Puts His Campaign’s Response Under A Microscope – 100PercentFedUp.com – by Isaac
A viral claim about Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico has collapsed under new evidence — but his campaign’s handling of the episode has opened a different and entirely legitimate question. The rumor claimed Talarico had spent his recent absence from the campaign trail at an Ohio behavioral health facility. That claim was false. The facility denied treating him, and timestamped home-security images reviewed by multiple news organizat…
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