Dana Perino: Talarico Was Disciplined While the Republicans Talked About ‘Tala-freako,’ ‘Social Issues,’ and ‘Weird Stuff’

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PERINO: "Yep. And there are consequences for policy actions, and there are also consequences for making a decision, so when -- I think that Paxton might have won the primary against Cornyn anyway, and I think that was one of the reasons that President Trump at the last minute was like, 'Okay, I’m for Paxton,' and then that required the Republican Party and then Elon Musk to put in hundreds of millions of dollars into this race to lose by that much? And the coattails that -- I think Talarico had the coattails over Hinojosa. Hardly anyone has talked about her. But everybody talked about Talafreako and the social issues, and the fact that he said God is non-binary and all the weird stuff, right, and he was very disciplined on message, talking about affordability, and he let some of that stuff roll off his back. The Republicans spent two weeks suggesting that he went to a mental institution when he said he had the flu, so they just wasted all of this time. And all of that money in Texas could have been spent in other places, like helping Michele Tafoya."