Where in the World is James Talarico?
Talarico’s campaign says he has the flu, which can be debilitating for him since he has Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disorder.
We haven’t seen Texas Democrat Senate nominee James Talarico since late September.
Talarico’s last public appearance was on September 26 at a gas-price event.
The Senate hopeful attended a private fundraiser in New York City on September 28.
We last saw Talarico on September 30 via Zoom for a virtual Hispanic Business Council forum, where he revealed he had the flu.
“I guess I’ve been shaking too many hands on the campaign trail, and so I want to keep everybody safe,” he said. “If I was passing on this illness to somebody and got someone’s grandmother or baby sick, I … couldn’t live with myself.”
A Texas Democrat within the Talarico race insisted that the nominee is “like, really sick.”
Talarico has Type 1 diabetes (T1D), which is an autoimmune disorder unlike Type 2 diabetes. With T1D, when you get sick, the immune system targets and destroys beta cells in the pancreas.
I have rheumatoid arthritis and Sjögren’s. Let me tell you that it is not hyperbole when I tell you it takes us with autoimmune disorders a long time to even recover from the common cold. We have a higher risk of more severe symptoms and complications.
In December 2019, I came down with pneumonia. Even with antiviral medicine, it took me two weeks to even function a little bit and another week to fully function. But even after that, the fatigue stuck around.
But the flu, stomach viruses, and severe colds can cause major blood glucose and insulin problems, which are dangerous for anyone with diabetes, especially T1D. Those illnesses can keep you from eating and drinking:
When you’re sick, your body manufactures its own additional glucose to provide energy to fight the infection. The flu may also cause your body to release the stress hormones adrenalin or cortisol, which reduce the effectiveness of insulin, the hormone responsible for lowering glucose levels. Combined, these two effects can result in high glucose levels that’s difficult to bring back to normal levels.
With insulin levels low, your body can’t effectively use the glucose circulating through it. Instead, it turns to using ketones for energy. The combination of ketones and high glucose levels can make your body too acidic to function properly. This is called diabetic ketoacidosis, and it’s an emergency that requires immediate medical attention.
The flu may also trigger another condition, called hyperosmolar hyperglycemic nonketotic syndrome (HHNS), in which your glucose levels are so high, your body essentially becomes dehydrated trying to compensate. It’s also a life-threatening emergency.
However, Talarico’s absence has caused some panic within his circle and among Democrats.
The New York Post received messages from a private Slack channel showing that Talarico volunteers have started panicking over his disappearance:
“I think it’ll be fine. It’s [j]ust conservatives blasting him. I’m just worried about him losing momentum,” Alex Balderas wrote in a group chat with the volunteers, featuring nearly 4,000 people.
“But I 100% expect him to make a comeback at the CNN [t]own hall that’s a given.”
Other volunteers brushed off the concerns.
Democratic political strategist Ed Espinoza said Talarico supporters he spoke to “noted Talarico’s absence from in-person campaign events and lamented that they wanted to make sure other people were seeing enough of him.”
They all seem confident that Talarico will attend his town hall with CNN next Wednesday.
In all seriousness, if Talarico is ill, I hope he feels better soon.
Update from a political reporter at KTVT-TV CBS-11 in Dallas-Fort Worth:
UPDATE: From the @jamestalarico campaign:
“James Talarico is back on the campaign trail talking to voters at Austin City Limits.” — JT Ennis@CBSNewsTexas https://t.co/VvckpbnhZe— Jack Fink (@cbs11jack) October 9, 2026
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Rumor has it, he’s hooked up with Andrew Gillum in a hotel somewhere.
Love it! May he suffer the same fate as Gillum.
I’d put him at DSA headquarters, taking follow-up courses in Popularity Through Deception.
Everyone chill
Its just morning sickness!
Monkey Pox is no laughing matter!
Could be sick. That would be giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Really
Paula, I didn’t see that coming from you lol
I don’t know what got into me.
I’d suggest Alpha-gal syndrome but that would be redundant.
If we’re lucky he’s dead in a ditch somewhere.
Flu can take two weeks in an otherwise healthy person.
Sounds like a genuine medical emergency.
Oh please
Cry me a river
What was he in Russia recently getting rubles?
Uh no. In fact there is quite credible circumstantial evidence that someone on a private jet with a flight schedule coincidently coinciding with Talarico’s very brief appearance arrived from an airport in Ohio suspiciously near a private mental hospital that has seen other Democrats with nervous breakdowns. In a nutshell, he was likely in a mental hospital. Frankly I can’t understand why they would let him out. Someone needs to create a new profession, let’s call them “reporters,” to investigate this.
If various reports are accurate then part of what is fueling speculation is the PR disaster his own team has created. He last appeared in Texas on September 26, was in New York for a fundraiser on September 28 and 29, and then started canceling events, except for one where he appeared virtually, with no explanation. His campaign then posted old rally footage as if it was current, and didn’t announce the flu diagnosis for over a week after his last in-person event. They claim he went to an urgent care on September 29 which may conflict with his travel to and from the NY fundraiser. If he simply got sick why did it take so long to disclose it?
The safe and effective shots for the Fauci Virus?
Twitter all abuzz today that Talarico checked himself in to a nut house.
Several big names claiming they have sources confirming this.
No one has posted anything resembling actual proof though.
Doesn’t matter if they have no confirmation. Act like the Main Stream Media. Run with it! 😀
We can admit we were wrong six years later like CNN did with “fine people on both sides”.
Or just short of 50 years, which is how long it took the NYT to publish a retraction of its editorial accusing Robert Goddard of being too stupid to realize that a rocket needed something better than a vacuum to push against.
No chance. The crazier he sounds, the more support he gets from DSA (formerly known as the Dem Party).
His campaign says he’s in public at Austin City Limits today. No pics yet.
Dude is either “transitioning” to becoming a “woman,” or was beat up, badly, by his boyfriend.
His campaign staff is not serving his interests by:
1. Blaming others for noticing he ain’t in public
2. Releasing previous video repackaged as if it was current/recent
3. Handing out a timeline for his non availability due to ‘flu’ that raised additional questions due to his in person participation at out of State fundraising after illness began.
4. No scheduled campaign events at all through election day invites more speculation.
More importantly they hurt him by refusing to categorically and emphatically deny the rumors of alternative explanation of a breakdown/mental health event. If he can’t effectively campaign b/c he’s so frail a basic flu is gonna incapacitate him for a couple weeks that’s another reason to oppose his candidacy.
During a virtual appearance on September 30, Talarico apologized that he could not be there in person because he had been diagnosed with the flu at a Dallas urgent care the night before (September 29).
However, the night before, on September 29, 2026, Talarico was physically in New York City attending private fundraising events.
It’s amazing what telemedicine docs can diagnose from a smartphone image.
Maybe someone gave him the Kamala diagnosis where “the less he is seen the better.”
Looking at the gap between his last in-person Texas appearance on September 26 and his October 9 re-emergence it would appear that he was avoiding Texas voters while prioritizing elite, out-of-state donors.
A Senate candidate with serious, potentially fatal medical conditions? Yeah, that’s exactly the kind of guy Texss should send to DC. /sarc
Ssh. You’re playing right into their hands.
Next thing you know, the Democrats will replace him on the ticket just before the election, with some black female airhead or cousin banger that no one has ever voted for.
He’s using the Biden campaign strategy – hide in the cellar until the election so that he doesn’t continue to tell people why they shouldn’t vote for him. By the election all of the Dems and Cornyn voters will have forgotten.
Mary you are way to kind towards this fool
I have diabetes and had cancer AND last year had such severe pneumonia it gave me AFIB and put me in the hospital for 4 days
I’m twice his age.
I was grocery shopping by day 10
This is BS, he’s probably indeed having a mental
Breakdown and in hiding somewhere
The little creep was at ACL in Austin today
Too bad it wasn’t still raining
https://x.com/Andylanger/status/2108647583560421788
I guess we can call off the search of Joe’s basement and Delaware garage.
Far too ill to campaign but healthy enough to stand around all day at a music festival.
“Where in the World is James Talarico?”
To answer that musical question, let’s welcome Rockapella!
10,000 light years in outer space
Read somewhere that this is a Democrat ploy. The candidate goes quiet and it’s because he’s WAY AHEAD, they say. So far ahead, in fact, that he no longer needs to campaign. Just go vote for him!
The most rational conspiracy theory of them all, imho.
Always thought the guy was sickly, pale, like a worm that spends all day under a rock. Or a vampire, except one that’s allergic to red blood. All those liberals frantically fleeing the problems they created in CA and NY, now busily destroying what little remains of decent, self-reliant America.
Sad.
Heard that nutjob has a few diseases. That a nutcase like talapinko can get any support speakS. wolumrd
Speaks wolumes.
He is out of state looking for money.
It now appears he was out of the state in a mental health facility.