Just what is going on with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico? The man disappeared. Depending on who you talk to it was for 9, 10 or 13 days. His campaign recently said that he had the flu. This does not make sense. Even Hlllary Clinton who had pneumonia was only gone from the campaign trail for four days.
Talarico vanished out of thin air after a fundraiser with TDS-infected actor Robert DeNiro and allies of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (DSA) in New York. Talarico finally resurfaced on this past weekend at the ACL music festival in Austin, Texas. Where did he go when he left New York?
His team tried to gaslight the country. “Hate to disappoint the conspiracy theorists, but James is still alive and meeting with voters at ACL today,” a Talarico spokesperson said as if it’s totally normal to disappear for two weeks in the heat of an election. Of course, no “conspiracy theorist” was suggesting that Talarico was dead. The question that was avoided was where has Talarico been?
It now appears that Talarico may have been spending time at a mental health facility in Ohio. There were allegations that Talarico was admitted to Lindner Center of Hope during his mysterious absence. This would not surprise anyone since Talarico has been all over the map on his policy positions.
Talarico believes that men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. He also believes in allowing the chopping off of the privates of confused teens. When faced with intense backlash over these positions, Talarico has adopted the Abigail Spanberger strategy of speaking moderating and saying what the public wants to hear. Once elected Spanberger immediately reverted to being a far left woke politician.
Of course, this has been denied by every Democrat from the river to the sea. This trip to the Hope Center has appeared to be confirmed by political strategist Rhein Amacher and independent journalist Nick Sortor.
🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week
The “flu” thing was a BIG FAT LIE
Following reporting by @SaraGonzalesTX and @CarolineWren, a hospital employee told @RheinAmacher and I that Talarico had in fact been a patient at the Lindner Center of Hope near Cincinnati, Ohio, which specializes in around-the-clock mental health treatment.
While I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises, this man is CLEARLY not suited to become a US Senator representing over 30 MILLION TEXANS.
The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful.
And Talarico clearly can’t handle it.
I pray he gets the help he needs, but Texans need a real representative they can rely on.
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 11, 2026
Talarico has not helped his cause. He has given two different explanations about his disappearance.
Talarico previously claimed, from a hotel room somewhere, that he had been diagnosed with a flu so bad that he went to an urgent care in Dallas during a virtual appearance at a United States Hispanic Business Council forum.
“I was starting to feel kind of under the weather a few days ago, and last night it got so bad that I went to the urgent care here in Dallas,” he said. “And I was diagnosed with the flu, and so uh I’m running a fever, and I’m my most contagious uh right now.”
More recently he changed his story. “I just went to my primary care physician, but it wasn’t anything worse than, you know, a nasty case of the flu.” So, was it urgent care in Dallas or a primary care physician at his home in Austin?
It seems like Talarico will say whatever is convenient. Most Dems are so seldom challenged that they lie fluently. And they’re confident their base of low-Information voters won’t notice or won’t care.
There is another curiosity to this story. A private jet flew from Austin, TX to Hamilton, Ohio (just twenty minutes from the Hope center). Then the jet returned to Austin, TX. Just in time for Talarico to make his public appearance at the ACL festival. Coincidence?
I think that Talarico needs a letter signed by 51 former intelligence experts attesting to his whereabouts during the last two weeks. I am sure that would settle the question.