Exclusive | AI James Talarico stars as a sex-change doc operating on girl in conservative PAC $10M ad blitz
WASHINGTON — The anti-trans campaign is going big in Texas.A conservative super PAC is kicking off its $10 million midterm ad blitz with a spot depicting Texas Senate Democratic hopeful James Talarico as a doctor performing a sex-change surgery on a little girl.
The brutal 30-second spot starts with a little girl playing in a field, picking petals off a flower before being placed on an operating table, with artificial intelligence-generated footage of a surgical-mask-wearing Talarico staring at her.“She dreams of growing up, falling in love, becoming a mother,” the narrator says ominously in the ad as the girl counts.“The trans industry preys on confused children.
Irreversible puberty blockers.Cross-sex hormones.
Sex-change surgeries.”“This November, stop them before it’s too late.”American Principles Project PAC, a group that advocates on social conservative issues, developed the ad and has plans to get involved in other battleground contests such as Wisconsin and Georgia.At the conclusion of the spot, the super PAC urges viewers to “Vote for Ken Paxton on November 3.”“This AI deepfake ad is flat-out lying: James does not support gender reassignment surgery for minors,” Talarico spokesperson JT Enis told The Post.
“This ad exemplifies the rot at the core of our broken, corrupt politics: Ken Paxton and the billionaires who prop him up are using shameful scare tactics and disgustingly using children as political props to lie about James because they have no solutions.”Talarico’s campaign pointed The Post to video of him saying that he opposes sex change surgeries on minors.The AI Dr.
Talarico spot is an in-your-face escalation from anti-transgender messaging has been effective against Democrats in the past.Swing voters resonated with an ad blitz against then Vice President Kamala Kamala in the 2024 campaign, saying “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you.”California Gov.Gavin Newsom admitted the ad was politically ...