Spencer Pratt says he was told Democratic candidate Talarico is in mental health facility
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ASHINGTON (TNND) — Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt said Friday that he was told Texas Democratic candidate James Talarico is in a mental health facility.
“My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility,” Pratt wrote on the social media platform, X. “His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.”
Talarico has been away from the campaign for about two weeks. He has not appeared for an in-person campaign event since late September, citing the case of the flu, according to Fox News.
Talarico’s Senate GOP rival Ken Paxton has been posting jokes about his disappearance and making missing person posters.
Pratt said that if it’s true Talarico is in a mental health facility, he needs prayer.
“If this is true, this is actually a time to pray for Talarico,” Pratt said. “We should, of course, savagely mock his smug, awful campaign advisors, by all means...and while yes, of course, this would be disqualifying for Talarico's aspirations to be a Texas Senator, we must hold empathy for anyone undergoing crisis.”
He said that campaign life is tough and not everyone is fit for it.
“Campaigns are brutal, and not everybody is cut out for it,” his post concluded. “You need very thick skin. As much as I don't want Talarico anywhere near government, I also don't want wish him harm, and no political office is worth having a breakdown. His awful advisors are at fault for this. They pushed him to be something he isn't, and it didn't work. I'm praying that this isn't true, and he's OK. You want to win these fights on the battlefield of ideas, not the minefield of poor health.”
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He has now emerged from wherever he has been for the last two weeks with some evidence confirming it was in a mental hospital also appearing
Given HIPPA laws, it will probably be one of those things no one finds out the truth about for years, as the people denying it's validity are the same people who spent four years shamelessly lying about Biden being perfectly fine.
We know Trump is mentally ill , from simple observation, yet he got re-elected. If Talarico is nuts, lets put him in the Senate, he might dominate.
I doubt him being publicly confirmed as nuts would cost him any Democratic votes.
Trump is clearly mentally ill and it didn't cost him one single red vote. Pot meet kettle.
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says they do not divulge patient information , even to Rhein Amacher, whoever the hell that is.
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evidently this piece of crap works for the Trump War Room social media account, a known lie factory.
this coming from the party that features the child molesting dementia poster boy in the oval office and a kentucky vegetable in the senate ...
what they are trying to do is turn 2 or 3 percent of texas voters against talarico, in the hope that will be enough to let paxton win
I can see why Pratt would say it, but why is it news?
MAGAs are so stupid and so far in a cult they will believe this (true or not).
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The same people who publicly speculated Trump was dead because he wasn't in public for a week and made that a story can't figure would why Talerico's disappearance for two weeks in the middle of a campaign is a story?
And I shouldn't forget what happens when Melania doesn't appear in public for a week, and she's not even a politician.
rue or not).
You don't think Talerico being in a mental hospital, if true, would be a relevant news story?
I am sure if it is true they will be transparent about it since the dems keep no secrets from America.
You dont think Trump acting like a child 24/7 is a news story, so who cares what Talarico does.
That's not true at all. Of course it's a news story. It's just not a crime which is what you what to make it. .
New justification - Trump cant be a criminal, he's just a kid.
Well, many people on the left call him mentally ill so..........................................
here’s the other piece of circumstantial evidence making the rounds:
Lets pretend for a minute that this story is true, why would Talarico going for a rest for 10 days make it a smart idea to vote for Ken Paxton, a man who was impeached by his own party, and was saved by the bell when Trump bigfooted the situation and told the Texas Senate to set Paxton free?
I think it is perfectly reasonable to believe someone with severe mental health issues should not be in the Senate.
People with severe mental health issues are not back on the street after 10 days.
unless they are friendless or homeless- meanwhile back in reality
Sure they are. People without severe mental health issues don't check themselves into a mental hospital for 10 crucial days during the most critical moments of their professional lives.
unless they are friendless or homeless-
I don't know what that means.
NJ GOP Rep Kean was missing and eventually out for four months, making an appearance June 30, 2026.
The GOP was so unconcerned about where he was or the rumors of his being in a mental health hospital ( he was )
that he was allowed to not be primaried and run uncontested for yet another term.
KY Senator Mitch was already addled from age, frequently freezing while speaking, when he could speak, and looking lost when he regained his senses. The GOP allowed the Senator to go off the grid for over three months. He returned to vote on something 09/17 but seemed otherwise incapacitated in his wheelchair. The GOP doesn't care.
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But have a washed up "reality TV personality" turned losing CA politician say that he heard a Dem candidate might have visited a mental health facility during a 10 day illness reported by the underwhelmingly questionable John Solomon's "Just the News" and its front page news in states like Arkansas and Tennessee.
In Texas where it should matter, Paxton, who refuses to debate Talarico had some fun with it, but Paxton is drowning in his own missteps.
Paton's ex-wife, a sitting Texas Senator ( convenient? ) could not bring herself to endorse Paxton the candidate, rather she endorsed the Republican Party and implored voters to not look at the man but vote for the Party to keep those other people from ruining Texas. ( You know, those other people she represents in the State Senate.)
Not to be outdone, Paxton's daughter wholeheartedly endorsed dear Dadd, claiming the Democrats like AOC & Talarico were responsible for the high prices of gas, electric and food and only electing Daddy Paxton could fix the problems;
In spite of 35 years of absolute GOP control of Texas, all your troubles are because of the soft spoken seminarian Talarico, a Texas house Rep of eight years and someone from NY.
These ads aren't working because Texans aren't that stupid.
Right, It would be silly to vote for McConell given his health issues.
As a Joe Biden supporter, I assume you disagree.
mitch is now the ideal senate republican, too bad he's on the exit ramp during what may be his most productive era ...
If someone voted for Trump more than once and still continues to support him it should qualify them for government disability since clearly out of their fucking minds.
fuck that, deport them.
they've been violating due process rights of US citizens who've committed no crimes, detaining them in concentration camps, and turning them loose in bfe when they realized their mistakes, or worse, sending them to 3rd party countries.
What office is he running for?
That's the source you're going with? Spencer Pratt?
Tell me you aren't actually dumb enough to just believe that. He has been doing events and interviews this weekend. He's fine. Conservatives who buy this garbage are either really stupid or really desperate about losing a Senate seat.
The liars who are spreading this fantasy have said he was discharged from a mental health facility Saturday morning. The only problem with that is that he was seen publicly on Friday.
Jesus, this is pathetic. I am embarrassed for you, if you are really going with this nonsense.
That plane from Ohio landed the day after Talarico was attending a music festival and doing his thing.
But John Solomon's conspiracy and propaganda site "Just the News" doesn't care about facts, just the thrill of lying and sucking in the fish.
Or, more likely, both.
No it didn't. Pay attention.
Your article is fake news generated by AI trash and amplified by liars like "Just the News".
Your first comment to the article is false, there is no evidence, just wishful malice.
No, your comment was false.
there is no evidence,
Of course there is. You tried to debunk the evidence about the private airplane and failed to do so. Is it proof? No. It's circumstantial evidence.
The entire legend is circumstantial. No facts equal no evidence.
You have already conceded as much at 5.3.
It's just typical bullshit reactionary propaganda. They forgot to mention that Talarico was eating people's pets while he was planning a war on Christmas.
Even circumstantial evidence needs to conform to reality. This fantasy is desperate wishful thinking. It is being spread by panicked regressives who can’t stand the idea that Texas may send a Democrat to the Senate. Since they can’t criticize him on issues or character, they make shit up.
Almost every campaign ad that Abott & Paxton are running are just repeated lies about Transsexual issues, voting records on raising taxes, calling Gina Hinjosa and James Talarico communists and other nonsense that has to be explained in a House of smoke and mirrors.
Both Democrats have vowed to protect the Constitutional rights of all Texans, including minorities by race, religion or identity.
Both Democrats voted repeatedly against Texas House & Senate Bills that would cap a County or city's capacity to tax it's citizens. All of these Bills were targeted at Dallas, Houston and their surrounding Blue Counties only. Republicans and Dems alike voted against them as many as 40 times.
Interpretation by Abott & Paxton? They want to raise taxes without restraint in spite of two facts. No state income tax is already in the Texas Constitution
and both Talarico and Hinojosa have voted to change the Constitution to make the Amendment process for creating any taxes even more onerous than it was.
Communism? China?
Seriously?
It's all they have.
Anyone with more than half a brain and the ability to feel embarrassment feels the same, though some are starting to get empathy and embarrassment fatigue having to watch these dumb as rocks Trump sycophants twist and pivot in a desperate attempt to cover their naked Emperor.
Well yes, he was one of the first to discuss what became a national story. It would be bizarre to not mention the source, right?
He has been doing events and interviews this weekend.
No shit. Why would you imagine that debunks anything? You can't be dumb enough to believe the fact that's he campaigning this weekend proves where he was prior to this weekend.
Bur of course the whole thing could be made up. . There are right wing grifters just like left wing ones. We had members of the cabinet lying about Biden's mental health. Some randoms on the internet could certainly do the same about Talerico.
It’s not.
It IS made up. Stop trying to rehabilitate this fantasy. For your own sake.