Just days into his Senate campaign, James Talarico is making his Christian faith a centerpiece of what will be an uphill battle to strip one of Texas’s Senate seats out of the hands of Republicans.
On Tuesday, Talarico launched his bid to challenge Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) with a campaign video that emphasized his Presbyterian background, and in the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination, he again invoked Christianity as a shared ideal.
Kirk, a conservative political activist, was assassinated at a speaking event in Utah on Wednesday, the day after Talarico launched his Senate campaign in Texas.
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“My faith — the faith I shared with Charlie Kirk — teaches me to love my neighbor as myself — not just my neighbors who look like
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