Inside James Talarico’s Faith-Based Bid to Flip Texas

Time: “The prospect of a Talarico nomination has Republicans in Washington worried. One GOP lawmaker keeping a close eye on the midterm map summed up his view in five words: ‘She can’t win. He can.'”

“Talarico isn’t the first candidate to mix topics typically avoided in polite company. But he’s doing it in a way that some in his party see as meeting the moment better than any politician in the country, giving his us-vs-them populism a fresh authority through his religious bonafides.”