General Discussion

During a March 9 interview on MS NOW, formerly known as MSNBC, the politician remarked that although he’s had “a lot of interviews with national media” since winning Texas’ Democratic Senate primary, he hasn’t been asked about issues like “the cost of housing” and “the cost of prescription drugs.”

“The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes,” he said. “What I would say is that the only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.”

Talarico added that common right-wing scapegoats, such as trans people and undocumented people, each make up roughly 1% of the United States’ population.

“We are all focused on the wrong 1%,” he continued. “Trans people aren’t taking away our healthcare. Undocumented people aren’t defunding our schools… It’s the billionaires and their puppet politicians. And so we need not only the media, but all of us, to focus on the real problem at hand.”