Now that leftist US Senate candidate James Talarico is looking ahead to November’s election and no longer trying to compete against fellow Democrats, he’s attempting to moderate some of his formerly extreme positions to appeal to a wider swath of Texas voters.
One obvious example involves his prior advocacy on behalf of so-called gender reassignment procedures on minors, a practice he now says he is against:
Talarico says no gender reassignment surgery for minors pic.twitter.com/tB688d8xLq
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 8, 2026
Meanwhile, the Daily Caller reported on a major ad campaign promoting a 15-second clip highlighting his previous statements:
The 15-second AI-generated ad shows “Talafreako,” as he has been nicknamed, parodying “My Favorite Things” as the character of Maria in The Sound of Music. The ad was first obtained by the Caller. The changed lyrics go: “Boys in white dresses with blue satin sashes. Girls dosed with hormones til they grow mustaches. Changing the gender of all your offspring. These are a few of my favorite things.”
The six-figure ad campaign is funded by Citizens for Sanity (CFS), a conservative non-profit organization that historically funds ads targeting Democratic woke agendas, absent border security and rising crime rates. The non-profit dropped $93 million during the 2022 midterms, funding ads that exposed the climbing number of crimes in Democrat-governed cities.
Here’s the ad:
NEW: The Trump-aligned org Citizens for Sanity is dropping a six-figure ad buy in the Texas Senate race.
The ad is a 15 second clip of AI-generated James Talarico singing a "trans kids" rendition of “Favorite Things."
Obtained first by @DailyCaller: pic.twitter.com/JNY8vxYueG
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) June 9, 2026
And a sampling of the comments:
LMAO!! This is perfect for Talafreako considering he calls women and girls 'neighbors with a uterus'. 😂https://t.co/3JQgSce28l
— Alex (@Alex510x2) June 9, 2026
Omg 🤣🤣🤣
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 9, 2026
And here’s the clip that started it all:
🔥🚨BREAKING: Texas Democrat senate candidate James Talarico is creeping voters out after revealing he loves ‘trans kids’ in his recent interview.
HOST: "Something that you love that's not family or friends?"
Talarico: "Trans children."
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) March 9, 2026
Talarico’s efforts to distance himself from his previous statements may be part of a larger strategy on the left in response to recent polling that shows Americans across the ideological spectrum are starting to align more with traditional values and morality, including gender.
Per Gallup:
These findings are from Gallup’s May 1-17 Values and Beliefs poll, which has asked Americans annually since 2001 whether they consider a range of behaviors and practices to be morally acceptable or morally wrong.
Along with birth control, having a baby outside of marriage and gambling, majorities of Americans view six other behaviors as morally acceptable. These include divorce (74%), sex between unmarried people (65%), gay or lesbian relations (62%), medical research using stem cells from human embryos (59%), buying clothing made of animal fur (57%), and the death penalty (52%).
At the same time, in addition to sex between teenagers, majorities of 57% to 89% say seven behaviors are morally wrong: extramarital affairs, cloning humans, polygamy, suicide, cloning animals, pornography and changing one’s gender.
Here’s the full interview:
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