Elon Musk spent $158 million on GOP leadership. Dem candidate James Talarico says rallygoers are ‘my slingshot’ against the ‘Goliaths’ to win Texas
Source: Fortune ·
The description falls in line with Talarico's past rhetoric painting politics not as right versus left, but the ultrawealthy versus everyone else.
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At a packed rally in Texas on Thursday, James Talarico compared his U.S. Senate campaign to David — who fought Goliath — as the Democrat faces more than $158 million in outside spending by Republican leadership and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. Talarico told rallygoers under bright lights that David may not have had Goliath’s strength, but he had a slingshot. “You are my slingshot,” he continued, without mentioning Musk or the other spending against him. “We are going up against our own Goliaths.” The description falls in line with Talarico’s past rhetoric painting politics not as right versus left, but the ultrawealthy versus everyone else, as he tries to become the first Democrat to win statewide in over 30 years. Talarico’s own campaign has raised record amounts of money in one of the nation’s more expensive and competitive Senate races. The national conversation around Talarico’s campaign has evolved over the past months. Initially, the state lawmaker was considered just…