EXCLUSIVE: A resurfaced video shows that following the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death, now-Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico said the country was facing a "really exciting" opportunity to "end the current situation of over-policing communities of color which has been in place in this country since its founding."Talarico, a Texas state lawmaker, is tied in recent polling with Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in the race to be the state's next U.S.senator.
Such a flip would be the first in decades and would deal a major blow to the GOP's chances of retaining a Senate majority.Despite a history of controversial statements, including calling God nonbinary and claiming there are six genders, Talarico has recently positioned himself as a moderate, pro-police candidate.However, critics are calling his pro-police stance into question after they say the resurfaced video destroys that narrative.Zach Kraft, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, ripped Talarico as a "dangerous freak who is willing to endanger the entire state just to prove that he is sufficiently woke."FAR-LEFT SENATE HOPEFUL EXPLAINS ‘OGRE ON A PIKE’ REMARK AFTER GETTING TORCHED BY HIS OWN PARTYDemocratic Senate candidate James Talarico is taking heat for his record supporting defund the police causes (Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images)Kraft alleged that "James Talarico's wacked out vision for Texas with no police, no prisons, and no borders would put families in danger and be a paradise for criminal illegal aliens."Unearthed clips from a September 2020 Zoom with South Asian American Voter Empowerment (SAAVETX) show Talarico saying that policymakers need to "listen to black voices and to the activists in the streets calling for a radically different vision of public safety."He ripped Republicans who he accused of wanting to "scare white people to win an election," saying that "is a time-honored tradition in the Rep...