John Heilemann: ‘The Question of Whether Talarico Had the Flu or Not’ Seems ‘Pretty Irrelevant’ Amid Paxton Scandal

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HEILEMANN: "A lot of repeated viewers that yeah. And a lot of repeated a lot of repeated viewings of la caja full. But here’s the interesting thing of what’s going on with that race guys. Everybody’s talking about this Texas race. And Republicans really thought they got a break. When James Talarico went off the campaign trail for a couple of weeks, and people wonder where he was. He came back, said he had a really severe case of the flu, but they were trying to make hay out of that. Trump and and jd Vance were like, where’s James Talarico? There were all kinds of rumors about where he might be. And then just as it’s been going, like on this race all year long, friends. The Wall Street Journal unearthed some video of Ken Paxton partying on new year’s eve with with his with his mistress, with his mistress and two indicted health care people”